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  • The good news is, this won't do anything to stop the kids.
    by sejje
  • “Good news” yeah…
    by frizlab
  • All rules have leakage, they don’t have to be perfect.
    by toomuchtodo
  • yeah AI companies are pretty vehemently set on making kids dumb & dependent on their products for life. a school district doesn't have the power or bankroll to oppose them. what arrogance lol
    by whateveracct
  • How many kids below 16 do you know that smoke and drink alcohol?

    Clearly, laws have a not insignificant effect, even if you could easily ignore them.

    by amelius
  • The job of the school is to teach and prepare the young children. If kids use things that could be dangerous outside of school, then that is the parents responsibility. Meanwhile, the school should do what they deem as most appropriate to ensure quality education.
    by Aboutplants
  • Don't ban smoking, this won't do anything for those who want to smoke.

    Don't force seatbelts, those who don't want to wear are not going to

    Don't try to restrict $A, it's against personal freedom/liberty that us at $corporate love.

    by stein1946
  • it's fine, really. Kids need to be able to read, write and do arithmetic on their own without assistance from ai. But it's still available at home, obviously.
    by fidla
  • Ban calculators moment.

    In my master's they gave me anything I wanted, laptop, internet, whatever. Gave 2 stupid hard problems.

    That's the future.

    by whatsThisBtn4
  • Don't need school for that. Just ask the LLM for two stupid hard problems and get the equivalent skills of anyone with an MS.

    Or maybe there was more to it?

    by beej71
  • and I suppose the rest of us will have to wait until the grim laws of finance do their work before our own sweet release.
    by somewhereoutth
  • Speaking of moratoriums, they also banned phone use. I am curious how that is going. No AI seems like it could be reasonable.
    by amazingamazing
  • No quantitative improvements in test scores, but it seems to make kids socialize more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/did-school-cellphone-b...
    by spamizbad
  • Related:

    New York City Bans A.I. in Elementary and Middle Schools

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542443

    by ChrisArchitect
  • i don’t mind this at all.

    tbh im fatigued of the general public being beta testers for companies.

    by toofy
  • I use AI a lot and find it fascinating and probably the most exciting thing since discovering the web.

    I’m not sure I disagree with this.

    Schools need to figure out how to integrate it well in a way that both helps kids learn and teaches them how to use this new tool productively. I don’t think that’s been done yet. It’s not a bad idea to just keep it out until we figure it out, or there’s a risk of just slathering AI all over everything mindlessly.

    At the very least it could be a giant waste of money. Schools don’t need to be spending their often limited funds thrashing around or chasing fads.

    The ban should be lifted once educators figure out what to do with this stuff.

    by api
  • It's a very powerful learning tool that, when misused, lobotomizes students.

    Students who use it correctly > students who don't use it > students who use it incorrectly

    by beej71
  • Los Angeles Public School System Bans Most AI for Students https://slashdot.org/submission/17350511/los-angeles-public-...

    The Los Angeles public school system will vastly restrict the use of AI at all grade levels, reported the NY Times and others. The news of the ban — which oddly had to be coaxed out of LAUSD employees (YouTube) at a meeting of the LAUSD School Board Generative AI Ad Hoc Committee — stunningly came as a complete surprise to both the LAUSD Board and K-12 AI usage protestors...

    by theodpHN
  • I’m sure there are really unique and great ways to utilize AI in the educational setting, however, young children should not be the Guinea pigs. Prove that certain things are beneficial, not just think they are, and then implement with oversight. People need to stop overthinking everything and just take one step at a time, evaluate and then take another step.
    by Aboutplants
  • That gets in the way of making money though.
    by dfxm12
  • > People need to stop overthinking everything

    If anything, it sounds like (you think that) they need to be more thoughtful and not just throw every new technology and technique at the kids and see if it works.

    I’m not trying to nitpick, but slow down, think, and measure before acting seems like clearer advice. Really what you are fighting is assuming that new technology is useful and just trying out various ad hoc ways to discover how to realize that usefulness.

    by alpinisme