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I give absolutely zero fucks. Screens everywhere is the most developmentally impactful education policy I have seen in my lifetime. My local public school district (which my kids do not attend) has a 1:1 laptop policy, meaning each kid gets their own dedicated Chromebook. Under no circumstance will I send my children to schools that apparently think Google/Microsoft have the kids best interests at heart
Imagine the technological shift we could see if they were similarly powered linux laptops vs. Chromebooks. Get kids used to linux in school and I bet we'd start seeing Windows losing much more significant market share.
I can't imagine the shift would be much bigger than the kids just browsing tiktok/insta during class hours on chromium or firefox instead of chrome.
I guess I'm suggesting that if you got kids used to using Linux, they'd be more likely to keep using Linux after graduating, on their personal computers. Nobody's using ChromeOS for anything serious.
I mean, ChromeOS is a Gentoo-derivative, so they are Linux powered laptops. Though yes, it does not function the same way as other Linux distros, so I see your point, I'm merely being pedantic. My point is mostly that simply being Linux doesn't make it better. It's the spyware installed and the lockdown that is a problem. And for school laptops? I do believe there should be boundaries set up. For instance, my 8 year old neice was caught watching porn on her personal laptop (she managed to find a workaround to the parental controls), and then she proceeded to sexually assault her 2 other siblings for weeks before she was discovered.
Boundaries make sense, it's simply the way we enforce them that matters. It is not impossible to maintain privacy while still regulating the content children are able to access (and don't even get me started on people preventing their kids from learning about LGBTQ+ topics with parental controls), but the biggest issue is that people allow their children to have unsupervised access to devices. It's my belief that parents should limit exposure to screen time, and enforce healthy boundaries. Parents should actually parent their children instead of letting them sit in front if a screen all day. As for school laptops, it's my belief that they should be properly locked down without being a privacy nightmare. No data about the student's activity should leave the device; all blocking should be done locally.
But of course, this is the product of late-stage capitalism and a surveillance state. I don't see reform happening anytime soon.
Until there's clear evidence that screens are advantageous to learning why in the world is the price tag for this justifiable and why aren't we assuming a null hypothesis or that they are probably a detriment to learning?
I agree though, computers in n schools should default to FOSS for both cost saving and to protect children from the ill will of corporate tech.
You could give them a Linux laptop and it would do all of the same things.