I don’t think school districts have any business renting-out years-old Chromebooks full of spyware for amounts that could buy a newer laptop, but here we are.

Couple of weeks-ago, I had to basically trick my daughter’s Chromebook into caching a lesson at a resolution high enough for her to tell that her snow-day packet’s math problems actually were part of the lesson. There was no option to download the video or watch it on another device(also tried, even casting it to a TV wasn’t available).

… but yeah, what the district and Google are cool with is super-important. They don’t even use books.

Edit: to clarify, when I say they don’t use books, I mean not even PDF’s, ePub, Mobi, or even DRM-ed-to-hell-and-back-but-at-least-readable-off-line-with-the-right-app Books … NO, it’s all one page or chapter-at-most at a time, baby-spooned through a browser, and God help you if your internet connection isn’t perfect or you don’t click/refresh often-enough.