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A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute
While schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with computers, the Waldorf School of the Peninsula has a no-screen policy. Yet it has become a popular choice for children of employees who work at Silicon Valley giants.
Credit: The New York Times
The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to Waldorf School of the Peninsula, a nine-classroom school in Los Gatos, CA. 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.
From The New York Times
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