[throwawayboise]

Yes. The district should supply the Chromebook for school work. They will manage that as they see fit. If he wants to do other stuff with a Chromebook, he should have a separate Chromebook and separate Google account. Ultimately that's easier and safer than constantly logging in and out of two different accounts on one machine anyway.

[don-code]

I am not a parent, but this seems like a good practice to get a child in the habit of, anyway: separating out your devices for work and school. Much like I wouldn't log into personal Slack groups on my work laptop (I learned that lesson!), I wouldn't try to conduct personal work on a school laptop.

[twright0]

> The district should supply the Chromebook for school work. They will manage that as they see fit.

I haven't been a student for a while, but the closest analogous technology they had when I was in high school was my graphing calculator for math classes. The school district mandated individual students each obtain a specific graphing calculator, which was a fully programmable computing environment (the TI-83). But the teachers/administration could and would wield a lot of power over those devices (which the the families owned in the legal sense) - looking through it, requiring students to wipe its storage with no warning, etc. Requiring families to buy a Chromebook and still use a school-managed account with invasive management on it feels largely analogous.

Buying a separate personal laptop is the correct workaround, but unfortunately I don't think the "the school should supply the schoolwork computer" line of reasoning holds up. The hardware/software has become more powerful in the graduation from TI-83 to Chromebook but the principles are the same.