The Waldorf school in Los Altos, California refuses to use technology in their school system. Computers are frowned up in and out of school. Their teaching tools are anything but modern: pens and paper, knitting needles, and occasionally mud. Some of the teachers believe this is a great way to learn by using creative ways to teach. One class used cake and quesadillas to count fractions and another memorized language skills by passing around a bean bag. You wouldn't mind that they aren't using technology, but what really surprised me was that three-quarters of the students have a parent with high-tech connections. Some of the parents even work at Google, Yahoo and Apple. It is very shocking that this costs so much to be a student at this school. The annual tuition for kindergarten through eighth grade is $17,750, while the tuition for high school is $24,400! If they can get by on not using technology then I think it's good for them, but eventually they will be at a disadvantage when technology becomes even more modern and a more useful in everyday life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&sq=waldorf&st=cse&scp=1
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