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I feel like as soon as a particular type of student learns that this is used, they'll have an excellent way to get that test that they didn't study for postponed, and even have plausible deniability that they didn't intend to lock the school down. At least for the first one or two times, after that it's back to triggering the fire alarm.

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At my high school it was bomb threats. At least two or three a year

That happened at my mom's school (back in the 1960s) until the school put all the kids on a bus and brought them to the local armory gym and made all student sit quietly (no talking) on the floor until the end of the school day. Once the bomb threat wasn't a way to get out of school on a nice day there was never another one.

I'm not sure how to apply that to this situation, but it is one every school should think about when students try things.

That depends on who you think needs to learn a lesson about buying an AI from Temu.

> Once the bomb threat wasn't a way to get out of school on a nice day there was never another one.

If I think of my school time, I would believe even the fact that a bomb threat would be an annoyance to teachers would a be sufficient reason (of course, in the schools of the country where I live there were other methods than bomb threats to be an annoyance to teachers).

An annoyance you can’t brag about to anyone, however.

Tangential question: what's an "armory gym"? Google gives me a specific gym (in Australia) called "The Armoury".

As I understand it, it's a US thing. In areas with snow the local military branch had a drill hall as part of the armory, to carry out drills in winter. These were large open interior spaces.

The military moved away from using urban armories. These became repurposed as sports halls, places for events, and so on. For examples, https://fightingillini.com/facilities/ui-armory/5 and https://www.wakefieldma.gov/Facilities/Facility/Details/Dril...

That is a child abuse!

Solution is to make school non mandatory!

Not making kids go to school is child abuse. Sure they won't like it - learning new things is hard. However society cannot function without well educated adults. (maybe in the future some post scarcity society will emerge, but we are not there and there is high risk it won't come before they become adults)

> Solution is to make school non mandatory!

The obvious unintended consequence of this is that then nobody learns how to read (because who wants to go to school?) and then our economy crumbles and everyone is stupid and then everyone dies.

Or maybe some kids do go to school, so they become the global elite while the other 98% are illiterate and they flee the country because obviously and so the economy still crumbles and everyone dies.

See, these are the things we need to be thinking about.

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