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.

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    58·
    7 hours ago

    What the fuck is it with schools being stingy with printed paper. At scale its less than a cent a sheet

    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 hours ago

      Teachers where I live are constantly asking for donations of basic school supplies, snacks, tissues, and cleaning supplies for classrooms. It is incredibly disheartening.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      442·
      7 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
        11·
        7 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
        14·
        4 hours ago

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

        • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          58 minutes ago

          Also spent several hundred just on vinegar and baking soda for labs.

          But yeah, I actually had to quit teaching after my divorce because I could no longer afford to do it!

    • TVA@thebrainbin.org
      19·
      7 hours ago

      Execs know teachers are doing it because of internal drive to teach and not for the pay and they take advantage of it in absolutely every way they can.

      If teachers want useful posters on the wall, gotta pay for it. If teachers want students to not have to share a worksheet 3:1, teachers will pay for it. It’s incredible not only how much they do for free, but how much they pay out of pocket for the “privilege”

      • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        7 hours ago

        Yeah. The system in the US works on exploiting, crushing, and discarding young teachers. Almost none of the other teachers I met while teaching are still in the profession. You are expected to martyr yourself for the job - I usually didn’t get to eat lunch, because I was busy. I stopped drinking water, because I ended up pissing myself one day when I couldn’t get to the restroom.