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> Have schools stopped offering computer classes,

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.



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