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[Rob Atkinson]

You are making emotional statements employing false logic.  Using
yourself and your family
as an example as if they are typical is specious reasoning.

Next you make an attempt via rhetorical questioning to imply I made
some statement that school officials are dumb.    You even put that
word in quotes as if I employed it myself.  I find that tactic
disappointing.  Then there is a vague statement about Steve Jobs
putting computers in classrooms but what grade level is not given.

someone else asked me what I personally had done to introduce children
to ham radio, as if making this about me was a productive point in the
discussion.  Moving a discussion to the personal is usually a sign one
party is unable to make a persuasive comment in favor of their
position.   I stand by my previous statements.

73

Rob
K5UJ

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On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:57 AM, David Knepper <collinsradio at comcast.net> wrote:
> Tell that to my son and his wife who have four children on the honor roll
> and all with i-Pads.  It certainly does keep them preoccupied and not under
> the feet of their parents (grandpap).
>
> Are you saying that school officials are "dumb" not to have computers in
> their schools.  However, you mention primary school which I assume is grades
> K-3.  You and I are in agreement!
>
> As a former school superintendent and elementary principal, we did not
> introduce computers into the elementary school until grade 5.  However, that
> was then and this is now.  I now see children in the primary grades sitting
> in front of a computer - I believe that is overselling the importance of
> computers; but, it certainly keeps them preoccupied while their teachers can
> monitor and not teach!!
>
> Steve Jobs knew before anyone else that computers should be in the
> classroom.  Schools all across this nation had Apples.  Of course, that was
> smart marketing at that time and made him a billionaire.
>
> David Knepper, W3CRA/W3ST
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