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14. If you were teaching children to function 20 years ago, you'd have a point.

If you want to teach children to function in a modern society, computers are mandatory.

What you are proposing is merely a way of keeping children behind the times in terms of computer skills.

This may come as a shock to you, but it would be difficult if not impossible for a student to alter an answer once submitted to the teacher with a computer, since the teacher already has it in their possession at that point.

For instance, if I e-mail you a document, I can no longer edit the version of the document you have in your inbox. I could send you a new copy, but that wouldn't work now would it?

You have an apparent lack of understanding as to how simple it is control such things if you know how.

Not allowing someone who is taking a CPA exam to use a calculator is ludicrous, as there is no accountant practicing today who does not use calculators or computers for every function of their job.

Little tip - if you want to test someone, test them on the knowledge and skills they will actually be using, not on skills they won't be using.

Hell, testing a CPA without a calculator is like testing a bus driver without a bus.