They require that the kids use the Chromebooks and use Google accounts.
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 hours agocant you give your child a cheap laptop, or they require thier inhouse shitty ones, use only?
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Euphoma@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
At the highschool I went to, there was some standardized testing (act, ap tests) done in locked down software installed on the chromebooks. Like instead of logging into your user, it was before login with no browser or anything. It sometimes let you have desmos and a small place to take notes.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
they mustve started using chromebooks in the 2010s, we dint have any of that nonsense in the 2000s, although it was not much better otherwise.
grue@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t know yet; I’m about to email the media coordinator to find out what happens when I refuse to sign the form.
My kids already have Raspberry Pi 400s (might upgrade them to 500s soon), and I have about half a dozen other computers (not including old retired stuff or my pile of other Raspberry Pis), all running Linux. This house is not at all lacking in technology, and I no longer tolerate proprietary shit in it.
What’s really fucked up is that the school district makes all these decisions basically unilaterally – not just for Chromebooks, but for other proprietary nonsense like ClassDojo and Remind and MySchoolBucks – and just assumes every parent will be cool with unquestioningly entering contracts with all these third-party entities. And even worse, most parents are cool with it!
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
As someone from Russia, I grew up seeing movies where you all over there sue each other over unfortunate rude word.
Perhaps that last paragraph is where you really should try suing someone, no jokes.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
its probably datamining material for google and all these propietary companies.