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Chromebooks are already widespread within US schools, and opinions generally seem to be positive.

They shouldn't be widespread. I will continue to hope that schools which mandate their use fall ever further out of favor. May the management be ever engaged in fights for public funding, and their allotments continue to shrivel.

I'd love to see a wholesale turnover in all establishments that cozy up to the likes of Google and Microsoft.

That hasn't happened because they're cheap, effective, and relatively easy to manage. Unless Google fucks things up big time, they're probably going to be around for a long time.

Unless Google fucks things up, or citizens start making bureaucrats' lives much harder.

I'm 100% in favor of people going directly to teachers, principals, counselors, on and on up until enough additional busywork is piled on top of these civil servants that their choice is a perpetual drowning in outrage or a removal of abusive technology.

It shouldn't be that hard to accomplish; possibly even just ten to fifteen people per school, applying pressure wisely, ought to make for effective burnout.

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