{"id":5002,"date":"2023-08-14T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirg.org\/texas\/articles\/why-parents-teachers-and-school-districts-are-fed-up-with-their-chromebooks\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:24:50","slug":"why-parents-teachers-and-school-districts-are-fed-up-with-their-chromebooks","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pirg.org\/texas\/articles\/why-parents-teachers-and-school-districts-are-fed-up-with-their-chromebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why parents, teachers and school districts are fed up with their Chromebooks"},"featured_media":47288,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":""},"campaign_tax":[],"display_option":[],"issue_tax":[],"person_tax":[],"region_tax":[],"state":[2],"topic_tax":[143],"class_list":["post-5002","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"helper_taxonomies":{"topics":[143],"collection":false,"press_type":false,"person_type":false,"resource_type":false,"event_type":false,"campaigns":false,"department":false,"level":false,"states":[2],"act_option":false,"display_option":false,"primary":{"topic":143}},"featured_image":47288,"caption_override":"","excerpt":"Tens of thousands of kids are headed back to school with computers that are about to be useless.","updated_on":null,"sidebar_action":"","hide_hero_image":false,"sidebar_action_query_string":""},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":null},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<em>Since we published this article, Google has committed to extend the life of Chromebooks! <a href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/articles\/why-google-announced-chromebooks-will-last-for-10-years\/\"><strong>Learn more about the victory here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em>\r\n\r\nThis fall, tens of thousands of kids will head back to school with Chromebooks that are about to be useless.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s not because the laptops are broken. Perfectly good computers are getting thrown away because Google has set arbitrary \u201cdeath dates\u201d for Chromebooks \u2014 often just a few years from when they were purchased \u2014 after which Google no longer provides software support.\r\n\r\nYour child\u2019s laptop should last longer than a backpack.\r\n\r\nParents and schools are trying to provide the best education possible for kids, often with limited resources. Throwing computers away -- and needing to buy new ones -- just because Google won\u2019t support the Chromebooks that already exist is frustrating and wasteful. That\u2019s why parents, teachers and schools are calling on Google to extend the lives of Chromebooks.","":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_featured_action","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_featured_action":{"action":[4096],"action_query_string":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h2><b>What \u201cChromebook churn\u201d is costing us<\/b><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For parents who have a laptop on their back-to-school shopping lists for grade school kids or kids going to college, getting a computer that will expire soon \u2013 or even that has already expired \u2013 can be costly.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The built-in \u201cdeath date\u201d of a Chromebook is based on its model, not when you buy it, so the used or refurbished laptop you buy may stop working after just a year or sooner. It can be hard to avoid buying computers creeping up on their expiration dates: Some Chromebooks that have <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">already expired<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/08\/no-discounts-or-warnings-for-people-shopping-eol-chromebooks-on-amazon-walmart\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">still be found and purchased on Amazon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parents and schools both know how tight school budgets can be. There are lots of things schools need money for instead of replacing perfectly good computers. But the \u201cChromebook churn\u201d can leave schools with little other choice. Last year, one school district was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/07\/24\/built-in-software-death-dates-are-sending-thousands-of-schools-chromebooks-to-the-recycling-bin\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forced to pay to replace 3,851 laptops<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as Chromebooks hit their death dates.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many schools and parents are also trying to go green -- and all these expiring Chromebooks turn into piles of hard-to-recycle e-waste. Only <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/edfund\/articles\/how-e-waste-is-creating-a-growing-environmental-and-health-crisis-across-the-world\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one-third of e-waste<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is ever properly recycled, meaning the majority of these laptops end up as pollution. Being able to use Chromebooks for longer would protect both the environment and our pocketbooks.<\/span>\r\n<h2><b>Parents and schools are calling on Google to make Chromebooks last longer<\/b><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what can we do to stop piles of working Chromebooks from becoming e-waste? Google has the power to extend the lives of Chromebooks, including ones that have already expired. Parents and schools are already taking action to convince the company to do the right thing and prevent millions more Chromebooks from expiring.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K-12 professionals, environmentalists, consumer advocates, and over 10,000 PIRG members have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/edfund\/resources\/chromebook-expiration-full-letter\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">signed our letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Google urging the company to stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer, and Google could still act to restore support.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can help, too. Adding your name to the petition to Google is an easy way to start. Then, spread the word to friends, fellow parents, or your local PTA and school administrators. When we raise our voices together, we know we\u2019ll be able to put a stop to the Chromebook churn.<\/span>","":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why parents, teachers and school districts are fed up with their Chromebooks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tens of thousands of kids are headed back to school with computers that are about to be useless.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/texas\/articles\/why-parents-teachers-and-school-districts-are-fed-up-with-their-chromebooks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why parents, teachers and school districts are fed up with their 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