Early day motion · EDM 704 · 19 Mar 1997

SCHOOL CHILDREN AND COMPUTERS

Tabled by John Butcher (Conservative) 2 signatures

The motion

That this House urges the Department for Education and Employment not to permit a schoolchild to use computers until the child has attained a reading age of nine and has learnt how to add, subtract, multiply and divide at which point each child should be introduced to Information Technology and computing as a powerful tool to support learning.

Source: the official Early Day Motions database.