West Virginia lawmakers want to stop students from using calculators in school

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West Virginia lawmakers want to stop students from using calculators in school

Some West Virginia lawmakers want to stop students from using calculators in school. House Bill 2639 doesn't have a lot of language to it, but it says the purpose of this bill is to ban the use of electronic calculators of any kind by public school students in grades pre-kindergarten through six in order to permit students to develop math and arithmetic basics before electronic aids are used. The only thing the bill says is that "public schools …