The article author doesn't seem to have kids. I do. The elementary kids leverage Alexa for arithmetic and spelling. This is why their spelling is awful and t

The article author doesn't seem to have kids. I do. The elementary kids leverage Alexa for arithmetic and spelling. This is why their spelling is awful and they complain about the math teacher forcing them to "show their work". Alexa ruins spelling education but not arithmetic, as long as the teacher isn't lazy about requiring explanations and multiple lines of proof of doing it by hand. The teens use wolfram alpha to learn how to do algebra, and graph, so given the answer, they use their crappy calculator which hasn't changed since I was in HS to get the same result as wolfram provided, so they can pass tests. Another oddity that indicates the journalist has no kids, is making it an amazing invention in 2011 that a Yale guy is the first human to ever notice income inequality, which is comedic to read. Both in the 90s and today, classrooms always have a basket of calculators for either forgetful or poor kids to use. Also the school library. Of course a borrowed calc will not have special notes hidden in them... Much like cursive, nobody uses calculators after school. Even the last few genx I know have given up on balancing checkbooks using calculators. Actually the only people I know who still balance checkbooks the old fashioned way are boomer and older and they're literally dying out. With everything paid online, I only have maybe one or two checks per month to "balance" and that doesn't require a protocol and algorithm to "balance".