Working Hypothesis

I have selected to research an article titled Invitation to a Dialogue: Computers in School? This letter to the editor, Greg Simon, is talking about his opinion of not having computers in the school setting until children enter the sixth grade. Simon was the domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore, and oversaw the Clinton administration’s program to connect classrooms to the Internet. I would have to disagree with this point. I feel the whole world is becoming more technical savvy everyday. If we don't educate our children and teach them how to use modern day technology until the sixth grade would we not be putting our children behind the rest of the world? Children in other countries would have a five year head start on our children here in America. What would the long term effect be? I just feel we should teach our children at a young age when they can absorb so much information.