Schools are sensitive, special environments for IT penetrance. Kids will become students very soon and IT stuff before you notice. It pays much more than eg Universities or Governments.

Reasons for forcing an IT product there are:

- product (not only vendor) lock-in. Once you go AI, you never look back

- evidence of Google's stronghold over educational matters

- if scools are AI-freed, it might escelate a rippling effect to other parts of digital usage