Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
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A loose network of parents are teaching one another how to get their kids off of 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.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    462·
    6 hours ago

    They also have to be paying for the software that tracks how many prints you use. It’s fucking stupid, and it’s just one of a million little ways that they make sure to punish anyone stupid enough to teach.

    I ended up buying my own printer. Printing alone got me to the maximum $300 of classroom expenses I was allowed to write off on taxes.

    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth
      10·
      5 hours ago

      Unfortunately not only a problem in schools. Where I work at there’s already a pay per use system that bills the department, with an entire system with separate codes to identify where you belong financially. Now they’re debating adding a fee for the ability to print.

    • Lemming6969@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 hours ago

      So you save 100 in taxes and pay 500 in printing costs… You’re down 400 for supplying your employer. Lol

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        31·
        1 hour ago

        They’re pretty obviously supplying it for their students, not their employer. Weird as hell to rub someone’s nose in the fact their students are trapped in a school system that doesn’t even supply teachers with proper access to printed materials. Even Reddit used to run a donor program to help teachers out with the costs.

        • Alexander Daychilde@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          40 minutes ago

          The way I read their comment was pointing out that the employer (the school district) should be providing sufficient printing. :shrug: But there’s many ways to interpret, I suppose

        • Lemming6969@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          40 minutes ago

          It’s like tipping… It happens because we let it. It’s so incredibly common that literally poor teachers are paying for basic supplies the school doesn’t when they should look those kids in the eyes and tell them they are sorry and that their society and school have failed them and to go home and tell their parents to vote differently.