Parents weren't asked. Many still don't know. Inside the new school surveillance nightmare.

The useful part

More school districts are banning smartphones and AI use in classrooms, and more parents are understandably pleased. They picture learning environments returning to the good old days of pen and paper and actual eye contact. Behind the crackdown, school administrators are building a corporate surveillance dragnet that would make a Cold War spy agency blush.

How it works

• Worse yet, 42% of those teachers confirm the tracking follows kids right out the front door and directly into their bedrooms after the final bell rings.
• This diabolical system routinely harvests sensitive personal details about your home life.
• American children are growing up inside an all-knowing, all-seeing system bankrolled directly by local tax dollars.
• The local school board effectively installed electronic ankle monitors on America's children — all in the name of educational progress and student safety, of course.
• A secret scandal The process usually starts with a sneaky sales representative who convinces a school board to purchase thousands of cheap laptops or tablets for daily use.

What to take from it

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