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.

  • Lemming6969@lemmy.worldEnglish
    110·
    19 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
      211·
      18 hours 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
        6·
        17 hours 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
        42·
        17 hours 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.

        • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          12 hours ago

          Sure, you can do that once. Then you are out the job. Talking about politics will get you in more trouble than raping a kid.

          I went into teaching because I care about making the world a better place. It cost me my marriage, it has sunk me into some of the deepest pits of despair that my mental health could take, it has meant physical and verbal abuse.

          Buying pencils for kids is the kind of thing that you don’t mind too much, because at least it is a problem you can fix.

          Once, I had a student ask me for a pencil. (He’d ask me everyday - usually in response to me asking why he wasn’t doing his work.) He looked me in the eye, snapped it in half, and asked for another.

          I gave it to him. Who cares. I couldn’t fix the sinks which didn’t work and stunk because kids shoved shit into them, but I could fix the fucking pencil.

          It’s a terrible job where you are expected to save the world and hated for everything you do. But, as a dog returns to his vomit… It’s part of my soul.

        • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          5·
          16 hours ago

          Anyone that would say that to a student who turned up to learn has no business teaching. You don’t take funding problems out on students. It’s not the teacher’s obligation to self fund their classroom, but many do it because often nobody else is. Reading someone talk about that and the message you decide is important to share with them is ‘lol you’re paying your employer’ is weirdo behavior.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      16 hours 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!