Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen and paper instead
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Parents are forming a loose network teaching one another how to get their children off school-issued Chromebooks and iPads.

The middle schooler had been begging to opt out, citing headaches from the Chromebook screen and a dislike of the AI chatbot recently integrated into it.

Parents across the country are taking steps to stop their children from using school-issued Chromebooks and iPads, citing concerns about distractions and access to inappropriate content that they fear hampers their kids’ education.

  • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t think it is reasonable to say “profit exists, therefore problems”

    Good thing nobody said that then.

    Not as though selling kids school supplies, hard cover textbooks, and other more traditional school trappings wasn’t profitable enough forty years ago.

    blah blah blah “text book industry gets to extort students then it’s fine for the tech bros to do it now too.”

    Nope. It’s not okay.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      text book industry gets to extort students then it’s fine for the tech bros to do it now too.

      Good thing nobody said that then.