Seems many Google executives have children enrolled in the
Waldorf schools in Los Altos where computers are not used until
the 8th grade and even then only on a limited basis. As the New
York Times reported, computers "are not allowed in the
classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home," and
from the number of Silicon Valley executives' families attending
the schools seems this double standard is popular. While Google
executive Alan Eagle may "fundamentally reject the notion you
need technology aids in grammar school," four plus years ago the
company joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation which
sponsored giving laptops to children in Third World countries.
"OLPC's mission is to provide a means for learning, self-
expression, and exploration to the nearly two billion children
of the developing world with little or no access to education."
So give them to everyone except their own children? Do Google
execs know something different about child development? Did they
themselves not have the