DEAR EDITOR:

In 2024, U.S. schools spent $30 billion on laptops and tablets. They were going to revolutionize teaching by spending 10 times the money on textbooks.

Gen Z was the first generation to use computers, and this generation has experienced a decline in IQ. Now we have a new generation on computers. It seems they threw money at a shiny object without showing how this harmed students. They are not being taught by teachers but by a screen, and we, as taxpayers, are losing.

Tech is a lazy substitute for better-quality teaching, making teachers just babysitters. Unions demand less handwritten work and more outsourcing of teaching now that we have AI. These children will not have to think. There will be more indoctrination than ever disguised as innovation and you, as taxpayers, are paying for it.

I see how much my tax dollars go to these schools of not learning. I remember when teachers graded our papers and saw how well we learned the subject. And as we have just witnessed the absenteeism in our own local schools, that is appalling. Why are we paying taxes when children are not attending?

RUTH LILLEY

Niles