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.

  • orenj@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Ludd was right. But the issue here is google putting out shitty products, not workers being replaced by machines the owner class has unrestricted access to… actually, if the purpose of those chatbots was to replace the critical thinking of students, maybe this is an issue the General would smash up.