What....why the heck would you give 8 year olds iPads....my littlest brother was born in 2002 I think and when he turned 8 his school didn't do this nonsense.

What....why the heck would you give 8 year olds iPads....my littlest brother was born in 2002 I think and when he turned 8 his school didn't do this nonsense. They should be reading from regular books and get regular chalkboard/whiteboard Lectures and doing hands on activities. Instead of giving them iPads you could have a small set of time in the week to go onto a desktop computer and learn how to keyboard and do those kid like programming exercises and maybe some fun online learning tools. Technology is only bad for kids if you don't know how to ration it and talk to them about it and limit it to educational uses. Just giving them iPads makes no sense. All you're doing is helping Apple lol..... You cannot even teach them practical academic tech stuff like keyboarding or programming using those kid friendly programming applications like Minecraft. Or at least lock down the iPads so it only has educational apps.