Parents and teachers are taking the wrong approach here. The proper response is "Your terms are acceptable".

Google no longer has a monopoly on search. They don't even have a particularly good search engine anymore. Even if the administrators want to keep some of the AI tools, they should get rid of Google search anyway.

Okay? There are other search engines and google has gone to shit in recent years.

Personally I don't think children should be exposed to AI fullstop, because it absolutely can rot your ability to think and do for yourself, and the temptation is always there to use it - heck look at what's happening with the amount of students using it to cheat in universities.

But at this moment in time there's nothing stopping kids accessing AI tools outside of the school's purview and still have it rot their minds, so perhaps schools should be teaching responsible use - and highlighting that it has no true ability to discern truth from bullshit, so will absolutely hallucinate and lie to you.

Parents and teachers are out of touch. Block googles domains and carry on. Google has shitty search and can be replaced easily.

Just use DDG instead?

what's to prevent schools from changing the browser's search to Duck Duck Go? Or kids don't use a school account and login into a private account using a VPN.

use DDG, or another search engine.

I’ve had Google blocked for like five years and literally the only impact it’s had is that sometimes I have to unblock for ReCaptcha.

Go to the library and stop supportimg fascists you degenerates.