-> Your comment is so true that it disturbs me to even think of the consequences
-> and ramifications.  

-> Consider a child starting school, looking forward to eight years of elementry
-> school, and being introduced to computers somewhere along that path.  Then
-> comes four years of high school.  All the computers and software is now
-> different.  If that high school has funds available, they might even upgrade
-> their systems every two years.  The child then has to learn two more ways to do
-> the same things he previously learned.  Then four or more years of college, and
-> likely more new computers and software. During all this re-learning, that child
-> also has to learn to read, write, spell, history, civics, etc., as well as all
-> the other stuff we had to learn BEFORE computers.  
-> Granted, their young brains are supposed to have a great capacity for learning,
-> but I'm sure glad _I_ didn't have to go through all that re-learning!

  Saddly the Norm here in Califronia is to So Consentrate on learing New
Computer Tricks that Reading, Writing, Spelling and all the other
subjects become Secondary. The Employers plead with the Education
estabislishment every year to PLEASE teach the kids to Read, Write and
to be able to Communicate verbaly. Saddly to no avail. We graduate
countless borderline Illiterates every year.

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