I've recently learned my daughter, with teacher permission, regularly has to use her phone (in her otherwise phone-free school) to get around blocks on basic stuff. Like in her math class the teacher regularly has them review techniques using YouTube videos (from an approved channel), but YouTube gets blocked every so often. Why? Very possibly no one knows. So she'll be sent to the front office where they can unlock her phone and she can use it to keep doing her work. It also came up recently when she was researching drug addiction for a paper, and all related search terms were banned.

Unlock her phone? Do they just take it or did they install some weird "school-control"(as opposed to "parental-control") software on it?

The school uses Yondr pouches: https://www.overyondr.com/phone-locking-pouch

It's a locked bag you put your phone in, but then you keep your phone (that you can't access) and they unlock it as you leave. It's popular for concerts and stuff too.

Interesting phenomena: kids will find an old phone, charge it up, and then that phone gets locked in the Yondr pouch (keeping their real phone unlocked). So now they have to spot check phones for cell service when they lock them.

I wonder if this is actually an opportunity for Kagi by having some kind of education pricing for schools specifically for this reason.

Came here to say that too.

Yeah, you have to be real careful. Our son has his own Chromebook and he once logged into it with his school account to do something. It installed the district's certificates and other blocks so that even his personal account couldn't do anything. We had to factory reset the machine.

That sucks, damn... That should be illegal

So it's the schools that're making kids - and thus the next generation - dependent on Google.

Sorry to hear that, in my school, i can do literally anything on those devices, although its not that i use them that much, only for around 2h a week