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Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper (www.nbcnews.com)

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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.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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