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Parents and advocates press LAUSD for tablet opt‑out, device limits and parental controls
Summary
Several parents and an education advocate urged the Los Angeles Unified School District board to offer opt‑out forms for kindergarten devices, restore parental content controls on district Chromebooks, and limit non‑instructional app use, citing attention, learning and privacy concerns.
Public commenters at the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education meeting on Nov. 19 urged the district to give families a clear opt‑out for classroom tablets and to restore parental content controls on district devices.
Mike Pearl, who identified himself as a tech journalist and a parent, told the board he and other families were “shocked” to learn some elementary classrooms hand out one‑to‑one tablets without an opt‑out option. “Just give us a box to check that says you won't put one of these things in our kids' hands,” Pearl said, arguing the district should allow parents to decline a device for kindergarten students.
Ana Mexen, a member of the group Schools Beyond Screens, relayed multiple district parent complaints about Chromebooks and…
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