LOS ALTOS, Calif. — The chief technology officer of eBay sends his
children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon
Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.
But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens
and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be
found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and
the school even frowns on their use at home.
Schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with
computers, and many policy makers say it is foolish to do otherwise. But
the contrarian point of view can be found at the epicenter of the tech
economy, where some parents and educators have a message: computers and
schools don’t mix.
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