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.

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    We didn’t have graphing calculators in school. The most we used were scientific ones which had sine, cosine, factorials, that kind of stuff.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      you did if you took calculus. but only 20% of students take calclus and only 40% take pre calc.

      you don’t need them for geo, tri, or algebra