It is early to learn to separate work (school in this case) from home by using separate hardware but it's a good lesson to learn. Get a second laptop, school spyware nonsense goes on one, non-school stuff on the other.
It's annoying and generally a waste of resources so feel free to argue with the school at the same time. Corporate IT won't remove spyware from my work computer, school sounds likely to be similar.
Upvote. My kids use Chromebooks as well, and we were asked to buy them ourselves, but I always assumed they would be heavily locked down and monitored.
We bought very cheap ones and they are only used for school work at school. They take forever to boot up and load google docs, but once there they are fine.
The kids know the teachers can see and read everything and anything that happens on that machine.
I kind of assumed they would be dropped or beaten up, and was expecting to buy a new one every tear, but the eldest is still in perfect condition after 2 years. Quite proud that they are looking after them.
It's annoying and generally a waste of resources so feel free to argue with the school at the same time. Corporate IT won't remove spyware from my work computer, school sounds likely to be similar.