Now, eveything is on tabets, phones, etc. My grandkids get a ChromeBook assigned to them at the beginning of the school year and return it two weeks before the end of the year. All of their work is to be completed via the ChromeBook. No acxtual textbooks anymore in their school district, which I guess works as they allocate the funds spent of books to other technologies.

I think there is a danger here. A lot of school systems buy a ciriculum "package" from companies for the kids to do the work on the laptops that
they give them. To me, the danger lies in every kid learns the exact same thing while also all *not* learning whatever is left out. I feel like you
are more apt to get a better-rounded education when you have different
teachers that don't all think the same way vs. everyone learning to recite exactly the same thing from the same computer package.
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Re: Decline Of Pc's
By: MIKE POWELL to CHARON on Fri Dec 26 2025 11:31 am

I think there is a danger here. A lot of school systems buy a ciriculum "package" from companies for the kids to do the work on the laptops that they give them. To me, the danger lies in every kid learns the exact same thing while also all *not* learning whatever is left out. I feel like you are more apt to get a better-rounded education when you have different teachers that don't all think the same way vs. everyone learning to recite exactly the same thing from the same computer package.

I think it's good to have a standardized curriculum so that you know that a student from anywhere (at least within the same country or region) has roughly the same knowledge. But it's good to have a well-rounded curriculum.

Nightfox

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I think there is a danger here. A lot of school systems buy a ciriculum "package" from companies for the kids to do the work on the laptops that they give them. To me, the danger lies in every kid learns the exact sa thing while also all *not* learning whatever is left out. I feel like y are more apt to get a better-rounded education when you have different teachers that don't all think the same way vs. everyone learning to reci exactly the same thing from the same computer package.

I think it's good to have a standardized curriculum so that you know that a student from anywhere (at least within the same country or region) has roughl the same knowledge. But it's good to have a well-rounded curriculum.

That also means that you have a whole bunch of students who don't know
whatever got left out of the standardized curriculum. As someone pointed
out the other day after watching three 20-somethings fail to produce an
answer for "What is 66+34?" -- "these are the people who will be trying to figure out out social security and benefits."

It also explains why a lot of younger people have a complete lack of
historic knowledge.

If every school is using the same books or, in this case, computerized packages, the kids are only going to learn what they want them to learn.
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Re: Decline Of Pc's
By: MIKE POWELL to NIGHTFOX on Sat Dec 27 2025 09:17 am

I think it's good to have a standardized curriculum so that you know that a
student from anywhere (at least within the same country or region) has
roughl the same knowledge. But it's good to have a well-rounded
curriculum.

That also means that you have a whole bunch of students who don't know whatever got left out of the standardized curriculum.

Yes, that's why I also mentioned having a well-rounded curriculum, so that important things wouldn't be left out.

As someone pointed
out the other day after watching three 20-somethings fail to produce an answer for "What is 66+34?" -- "these are the people who will be trying to figure out out social security and benefits."

It also explains why a lot of younger people have a complete lack of historic knowledge.

If every school is using the same books or, in this case, computerized packages, the kids are only going to learn what they want them to learn.

For a very long time, I remember people saying they feel like schools (at least, public schools) teach kids only what they want them to learn. I'm not sure if everyone will ever agree on what schools should teach.

In recent years, I've heard about schools in the US lowering their standards, in part because they want to show that more students are passing & graduating. I just did a quick search online and found a couple of articles:

https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408004

https://www.future-ed.org/research-notes-easing-academic-standards-hurts-strugg ling-students/

Nightfox

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