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Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
You're taking what they said a fair bit further than they actually said. They said a class a day for technology literacy, and you reacted like they advocated for nothing except advanced computing.
Teaching tech literacy is part of the basics.
You can say it should be learned on their own time, but why not say that of drawing and color theory? Math, history, civics?
Some parts of primary and secondary education are about teaching you how to live in the society you'll be living in. Technology is part of that.