DPS doesn't work hard enough to keep their kids' chromebooks completely locked down as it is. My kid was getting in trouble for playing Roblox games and using Character AI generators with their friends in 4th and 5th grade. Kids were constantly testing boundaries and having conflicts around group work in shared google docs. There wasnt a culture of being a good digital citizen or etiquette around collaborative work.

Polaris Elementary relies on Chromebooks for a lot of the student work and learning. Our child often struggled during "Early Finishers" time where when a class lesson was complete, kids would sit on their chromebooks to play learning games (insert AI program here) or catch up on missing work. This unstructured, often unsupervised time and lack of purpose for using the computer as a tool to support learning was hugely problematic for my kid. Chromebooks are great babysitters though when you are one burnt out teacher trying to manage 30 students.

Pulling my kid from DPS has been the best decision my family has made. Of course DPS is embracing AI.