This article cites some very questionable research and seems to have a lack of rigor, in general. It's all fine to dislike Google, but technology is going to be a part of your kids' lives whether you like it or not. It is to their detriment if you believe otherwise.
The article relies to a large extent on the blogs of cranks, if you click through to any of the sources, none of which are primary, you get derangement such as:<p><a href="https://missourieducationwatchdog.com/why-pokemon-is-not-a-go-and-how-is-google-involved/" rel="nofollow">https://missourieducationwatchdog.com/why-pokemon-is-not-a-g...</a><p>I appreciate that people have privacy concerns, but this meter-long blog post is the result of just imagining a bunch of stuff that an evil company might do and then searching for a bunch of second-hand innuendo to support your hallucinations, in the tradition of people who have been ranting about gold-fringed flags on the Internet for decades. It doesn't advance the discourse and it isn't redeemed just by focusing on the boogeyman of the moment.
We had parent teacher interviews here in Australia this week and my boys 3rd grade teacher suggested we could work on his typing because by year 5 and 6 all his work will be done on a chrome book. My other boy is 1st grade and his teacher suggested some typing practice too, apparently the whole class was hopeless logging in to their Reading Eggs app.
Author complains Chromebooks are dangerous because Google is evil. And the only way out is for you to be rich since private schools offer iPads instead and they are much safer.<p>I don't get it. How is Company A offering better than company G here? Seems biased to me.