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Sabrina Alexander urges Norman Public Schools to keep generative AI off student devices
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At a Norman Public Schools board meeting, parent Sabrina Alexander warned the district against allowing generative AI on 1:1 student devices, citing concerns about academic integrity, mental-health risks, and age-restricted user agreements; she said a petition opposing school deployment has 70+ signatures.
Sabrina Alexander, a local parent, told the Norman Public Schools Board of Education that the district should not allow generative artificial intelligence on student-issued 1:1 devices. "AI plunders human work and then regurgitates it claiming its own intelligence even though it regurgitates it falsely and inaccurately," Alexander said, urging board members to "heed our warnings."
In a three-minute public comment, Alexander said she has gathered more than 70 signatures on a petition from parents, teachers and community members opposed to deploying generative AI in classrooms or on student devices. She argued that core AI training is "problematic," that the technology threatens academic integrity by enabling students to produce work they did not create, and that it can cause emotional harm for some students.
Alexander cited several specific concerns raised by signees: that many AI services set user agreements for ages 18 and older; that generative models can produce inaccurate or fabricated outputs; and that some users have reported harmful content or advice from AI. She asked the board to withhold district-level deployment "until the designers of the product make it safe for children."
The board did not take action on the comment during the meeting; public comment was limited to three minutes and board members did not respond during the public-communications period.
