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I’d read more about your experience. Even most middle schools now expect the child to have a google account.

Favoring one corporation over alternatives? Do these schools have contracts with Google, that are publicly available?

This is nothing new - in the 1990s schools taught Microsoft Office. Much to the chagrin of open source advocates.

But 90's kids didn't need an account for it.

Google does have a lot of handy features.

Basically use LibreOffice, and convert to whatever format is ok.