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.

  • JackbyDevEnglish
    64·
    2 months ago

    They’re putting AI in children’s school laptops? Not only teaching them to think less, but letting a corporation directly influence them?

    • Rooster326English
      20·
      2 months ago

      They are Chromebooks. A gigantic corporation is already influencing them?

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        24·
        2 months ago

        There’s a big difference between “hey kids, use this machine, it has Internet access and Brand products” and “hey kids, ask me anything you’d like, and I’ll give you the Brand approved answer.”

    • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Kids have two options. Out dated propaganda, or propaganda that might hallucinate a few key details.

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Well obviously the propaganda I grew up with is better and clearly didn’t affect me at all…