Laptops for every kid is the worst decision made in modern education

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School districts don't care and will blame parents (their go-to excuse for their own incompetence) for as long as they can get away with it. Parents have to go to state legislators to fix this.

This. The administrators and teachers found a way to do as little as possible. They don’t care if their kids become imbeciles.

HS teacher for over a decade. Can confirm this. I literally no longer spend any time outside of my contract hours for absolutely anything.

AI for planning. Own students grading their tests (with blind codes, no names on it so my rear is saved from any snowflake complaining), computer this computer that. Also gamification of stuff. It’s wild. But now I have a life to live AND can make serious cash on the side with tutoring and coaching. Some months my side hustles actually bring me in more than my teacher checks. In all honesty, the reason to still do this is for the health insurance lol not gonna lie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher, and reading the first message I totally agree. But reading the later messages about how this means teachers are lazy is ridiculous and offensive. My colleagues and I are working hard within a challenging school system with lots of requirements on what we do, including requirements on how we use tech. I encourage parents to advocate for change, as I do in my school. But if you start blaming and insulting teachers, you lose the support of the people who are working most directly with your children.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School districts don't care and will blame parents (their go-to excuse for their own incompetence) for as long as they can get away with it. Parents have to go to state legislators to fix this.

This. The administrators and teachers found a way to do as little as possible. They don’t care if their kids become imbeciles.

HS teacher for over a decade. Can confirm this. I literally no longer spend any time outside of my contract hours for absolutely anything.

AI for planning. Own students grading their tests (with blind codes, no names on it so my rear is saved from any snowflake complaining), computer this computer that. Also gamification of stuff. It’s wild. But now I have a life to live AND can make serious cash on the side with tutoring and coaching. Some months my side hustles actually bring me in more than my teacher checks. In all honesty, the reason to still do this is for the health insurance lol not gonna lie

Yeah. Teachers don’t care. They just want to work their designated hours, show some dumb slides, and collect gift cards from parents.

[Anonymous]

Go be a teacher. Then you can teach how you made America Great Again.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher/librarian, and I completely agree. It wasn’t the Covid closures that wrecked education, it was the switch to one to one devices. My students’ interest in reading has nosedived in the last five years. And why shouldn’t it? They use devices for every task in the classroom, including reading instruction. We know from research that the best predictor of good reading skills is time spent reading books, and yet we don’t make that the core of our literacy curriculum anymore.

I’m hearing from admin and instructional facilitators how great AI is and how it will help me do my job better. It’s truly disturbing. Using AI to write objectives or questions for a lessons is insane. Teachers should know their content and goals well enough to do that easily.

I suspect in 10 or 20 years we will be ashamed of this era of education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher/librarian, and I completely agree. It wasn’t the Covid closures that wrecked education, it was the switch to one to one devices. My students’ interest in reading has nosedived in the last five years. And why shouldn’t it? They use devices for every task in the classroom, including reading instruction. We know from research that the best predictor of good reading skills is time spent reading books, and yet we don’t make that the core of our literacy curriculum anymore.

I’m hearing from admin and instructional facilitators how great AI is and how it will help me do my job better. It’s truly disturbing. Using AI to write objectives or questions for a lessons is insane. Teachers should know their content and goals well enough to do that easily.

I suspect in 10 or 20 years we will be ashamed of this era of education.

It’s part of the agenda to remove USA as the first world power.

China will surpass us and our children will be extremely useless compared to their prowess and preparation in all fields.

[Anonymous]

I can see them being a disaster in poorly run school districts but in well run schools that use them correctly it’s a perfect blend. Especially starting in middle school.

[Anonymous]

LA parents push for less tech in schools: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-19/transitional-kindergarten-educational-technology-screen-time-lausd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can see them being a disaster in poorly run school districts but in well run schools that use them correctly it’s a perfect blend. Especially starting in middle school.

Even students don't agree with you: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/learning/what-students-are-saying-about-screens-in-school.html

[Anonymous]

Kansas - no more chromebooks - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/technology/chromebook-remorse-kansas-school-laptops.html

[Anonymous]

Yep, get rid of the laptops

[Anonymous]

I just found out my 2nd grader gets free time on his computer while other kids use Lexia because he finished Lexia in September. Dumb me assuming that if he finished Lexia he would be given other work or reading assignments not free time on a computer.

We dont have a Kindle Ipad or computer for him at home. I am doing my part in not making my child a dumba$$. Jokes on me thinking the teacher and school would also have the same goal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher/librarian, and I completely agree. It wasn’t the Covid closures that wrecked education, it was the switch to one to one devices. My students’ interest in reading has nosedived in the last five years. And why shouldn’t it? They use devices for every task in the classroom, including reading instruction. We know from research that the best predictor of good reading skills is time spent reading books, and yet we don’t make that the core of our literacy curriculum anymore.

I’m hearing from admin and instructional facilitators how great AI is and how it will help me do my job better. It’s truly disturbing. Using AI to write objectives or questions for a lessons is insane. Teachers should know their content and goals well enough to do that easily.

I suspect in 10 or 20 years we will be ashamed of this era of education.

Agreed. Once my kids got their chromebooks from school, their attention spans to anything else tanked.

The saddest thing for me was when my oldest said that her teacher "read" them books by showing them videos in class of people reading books.

As parents, we can try and try, but if they're giving them crackbooks at school, there's not much we can do about it. Idk why I even bothered being interactive with my kids and not using screens before Kindergarten (other than movie nights or ipads on plane trips).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can see them being a disaster in poorly run school districts but in well run schools that use them correctly it’s a perfect blend. Especially starting in middle school.

i might agree with you if it started in middle school. nope- it starts in kindergarten.

Apart from the learning, it's the attention span issue that's really hurting kids. Laptops are just so addicting. And they're gameified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just found out my 2nd grader gets free time on his computer while other kids use Lexia because he finished Lexia in September. Dumb me assuming that if he finished Lexia he would be given other work or reading assignments not free time on a computer.

We dont have a Kindle Ipad or computer for him at home. I am doing my part in not making my child a dumba$$. Jokes on me thinking the teacher and school would also have the same goal.

I definitely see this happening. And it’s impossible to get those early finishers to read a book because who wants to read when there are twenty otherscreens plus your own to stare at?

Much of ES culture has lost a core of sustained silent reading and it’s going to take a LOT of work to regain that lost ground.