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Kansas Middle School Confiscates Chromebooks as Laptop Policies Retreat

7/28/2026

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McPherson Middle School in Kansas required 480 students to surrender Chromebooks in December 2023.
Principal Inge Esping said technology is a tool, not the answer, and now limits laptops to teacher-assigned tasks.
North Carolina spent $448 million on pandemic computers.
Wake and Burke counties are scaling back one-to-one laptop policies while Burke reported higher reading scores in February.

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McPherson Middle School in Kansas required 480 students to surrender Chromebooks in December 2023.
Principal Inge Esping said technology is a tool, not the answer, and now limits laptops to teacher-assigned tasks.
North Carolina spent $448 million on pandemic computers.
Wake and Burke counties are scaling back one-to-one laptop policies while Burke reported higher reading scores in February.