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.

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    You’re taking what they said a fair bit further than they actually said. They said a class a day for technology literacy, and you reacted like they advocated for nothing except advanced computing.

    Teaching tech literacy is part of the basics.
    You can say it should be learned on their own time, but why not say that of drawing and color theory? Math, history, civics?
    Some parts of primary and secondary education are about teaching you how to live in the society you’ll be living in. Technology is part of that.