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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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[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I don’t think it is reasonable to say “profit exists, therefore problems”

Good thing nobody said that then.

Not as though selling kids school supplies, hard cover textbooks, and other more traditional school trappings wasn’t profitable enough forty years ago.

blah blah blah "text book industry gets to extort students then it's fine for the tech bros to do it now too."

Nope. It's not okay.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

text book industry gets to extort students then it’s fine for the tech bros to do it now too.

Good thing nobody said that then.

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