• Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      That’s why they only know what Chromebook offers, they have them in school.

      My kid’s school doesn’t have any kind of computer instruction, no computer lab, it’s all Chromebooks.

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        Is it your genuine belief that your schools would have computer instruction and big easily accessible labs if not for Chromebooks?

        I remember “teach kids computers” as an educational panacea during the 80s/90s. It made Micheal Dell very rich, but often at the expense of the biology, chemistry, and physics lab programs. “Nobody knows how to use a blowtorch / dissect an animal / build an engine anymore” was a refrain I heard all the through my high school years.

        Has eliminating computer labs brought back the old 70s era Space Race science programs? Or are we still just boiling away ever ounce of the public system that costs money (except athletics, of course)?