@theodoraward @GhostOnTheHalfShell I’ve been repeating this all over Mastodon but it is absurdly, tragically easy to get a school district or educational institution to buy whatever snake-oil tech solution you’re selling, partly because the buyers don’t know enough to ask the right questions.

the way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.