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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by HDThoreaun on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:07AM (#34579735)
And my math classes didn't require a calculator. Still would've been a disservice to ban them, because the point is to prepare you for real life where using a computer is the expectation.
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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by AstixAndBelix on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:15AM (#34579824)
Learning to do high school maths by hand and then doing it on a computer is trivial. Learning everything through a computer and then trying to do it by hand is incredibly hard.

Having your basic education be dependent on the most complicated tech in existence seems a bit too much for me. I don't think 5nm chips made in Taiwan are the best way to teach a kid what division is and who Napoleon was.

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