> assuming that kids already know how to use them from their experience at home?
Partly this and partly budget cuts. Computer skills aren't on the standardized tests, so they are a "waste of time" like art and music and history and everything else that isn't on the test. So they are deemphasized.
Some schools with money for computers and a computer teacher will at least try to integrate it into their language instruction by doing exercises on the computer.
Many have stopped or at least severely cut back
> assuming that kids already know how to use them from their experience at home?
Partly this and partly budget cuts. Computer skills aren't on the standardized tests, so they are a "waste of time" like art and music and history and everything else that isn't on the test. So they are deemphasized.
Some schools with money for computers and a computer teacher will at least try to integrate it into their language instruction by doing exercises on the computer.