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Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper (www.nbcnews.com)
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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.

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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Public education either needs to be reclaimed and rebuilt from all the corrupting influences that have torn it apart. I'm not worried about the children of intelligent people, who can fall back on enrichment provided by their families, but so many kids are, at best, getting left behind or worse, being indoctrinated with all sorts of corpo-fascism now inherent in the system. Most kids seem to be coping pretty alright, so far, but I worry about the trends, and the future.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

First off, congratulations on posting the comment you were working on instead of deciding you didn't care enough to hit send. Second, I've done exactly what you've done, so if I'm a pedant I'm also a hypocrite. Third, I'm really really curious; what was the "or" half of the either/or statement you started at the beginning of your post? Or did autocorrect change really to either? Inquiring minds want to know