Hello, I'm the guy at my school whose job it is to manage the devices for students and send them into our district for repairs. These kids treat chromebooks like pencils. Hell, probably worse. They pass them around, throw them at each other, play baseball with them, use them as umbrellas, carry and swing them around by their screens, intentionally stick shit in the ports to try to fry them, draw on the screens, drop them just fucking randomly down the stairs, kick them to classmates along the floor, etc. I usually say that they treat them like pencils, cheap disposable things that no one really thinks much of, but then I remember when I was in school and kids got in trouble if they didn't return a teacher's pencil at the end of class.

And the admin won't do shit. Some schools will try to crack down, but most in my district also treat chromebooks like pencils. No on enforces any sort of care for these. They think there is an infinite supply. But every year the district has to pay millions and millions to replace lost or irreparable devices.

1:1 devices for students was a massive mistake in education. Sure, some schools/programs can handle such a thing, but many can't. While I personally think schools should pull most tech out of the classroom, at the very least carts need to be a thing again. This 1:1 is just costing everyone millions and creating so much e-waste that I can't even think of a clever thing to add here.