'Old School' School

In Los Altos California, there is a chain of schools that are not trying to build technology into their curriculum but stay away from it completely. The Waldorf Schools are private schools, kindergarden through high school. The school believes that technology is not ideal for learning and they say they need more human contact and interaction. Paul Thomas says, "Teaching is a human experience. Technology is a distraction when we need literacy, numeracy and critical thinking." There are over 40 of these Waldorf schools and also some similar type schools around california and it is very popular among employees of large corporations like Apple, Google, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. They say that the children do not need to be drilled with technology as a kid and can easily acquire the skills to use them when they are older. Tuition to these schools are between 17,000 and 25,000 depending on grade.

I am not sure if i agree with this whole method of completely disregarding technology. I can see their point about human interaction and all that but you can sill have that with technology. Just because you use technology does not mean it has to be every second, it can be used for a little while and then the 'old school' approach can be used too. These parents are working in the technology fields and they know as well as anyone that technology is here and there is no way around it. They can try to be  naive and think that they can have their children learn the way they did but the world is not like that anymore. If the children just try to learn it all when they are older they will be at a disadvantage to the rest of the world who had the chance to grow up and learn with the technology; the ones who kept up with the ever growing world. Our world is technology and it is not fair to hold kids back from living in the world we live in today. I also this it is ridiculous that this type of school costs so much money. If they are not buying any technology they should not be spending a lot of money and therefore should be a cheap school to enroll in. It does not seem logical but i guess if that is what these people want, they have the right to do it.