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Wait until we find out that the school-assigned devices are always listening, and everything is being scanned for keywords by the NSA, and they're taking action based on what they hear, arresting and deporting people.
It sounds insane, but this is MAGAmerica. If this was the top story tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised, at all. Think of this when the Administration says they are going to give a free laptop or tablet to every American schoolchild.
They give each kid in middle school and up a lenovo windows computer at mi kids' school. My daughter does her school work on her Fedora PC, transfers the files to the lenovo over FTP, and uses it only in school. The funny thing is that she came home complaining about that, and I quote, "garbage computer they gave me at school, I can't work on that thing", and decided to instead use that workflow. I'm so proud of her ๐