“Shockingly, 38% of teachers said they were even aware of a student who was contacted by law enforcement as a result of the monitoring.”
Edtech vendors sold schools filtering and AI monitoring as safety. Almost three-quarters of students say the filters block material they need for coursework. Around two-thirds of teachers have seen students disciplined because of the monitoring software, and 19% of students know of a classmate outed as LGBTQ+ by it. Only 31% of parents were asked for input. Schools bought a pipeline from a kid’s search bar to the police and called it child safety.