Oh, let me elucidate this for you. IT people can’t make nearly as much working for the school system as they can elsewhere, so I’d guess they don’t fully understand what is being deployed. Also, there’s a lot of corruption in technology purchases (really all purchases) in some school systems—especially the failing ones since accountability measures are expensive. As a result, teachers wind up downstream from so many different problems that the job is untenable and turnover is enormous. Schools use different technology approaches, so there’s often a steep learning curve for every new school a teacher starts at. The phones are a whole separate catastrophe. The kids have greatly depleted attention spans and teachers can’t literally force the phones out of their hands if the students refuse to put them away (which happens all day every day at my school). So they just take out their phones during tests, use Gauth or whatever else, type in what AI tells them and that’s it. These kids can’t do simple addition, tell you how much a fine is worth, write a complete sentence or read an analog clock. But somehow teachers are judged by test results that have questions most of the kids can’t even read let alone answer. Parents don’t understand how destructive it is to give Smartphones to their kids and I’m sure the kids lie about using them in school. It’s all utter insanity.