Perhaps it's more like "Kids short-circuiting school issued chromebooks because of excessive surveillance."
...but probably not (or at least, not entirely) because many kids are dumb.
source: was a dumb kid.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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If this were an unbiased and honest article; then it would read “Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for social clout.” The subtle message, in this article, is TikTok = bad, which is illogical because events such as this will occur regardless of platform or even lack of a platform. It will ALWAYS happen. The question is how to mitigate these events as much as possible, because it’s impossible to completely eradicate “kids doing X for social clout.” It’s a part of learning and being human.
Yeah, could have been called “kids are learning how circuits work thanks to TikTok trend” and suddenly the story has a whole other meaning
Yes but without tik tok this is a kid or two being stupid and charged a couple hundred at one school. I think we had 3 kids today at school destroy their laptops.
Behold the next generation of voters.
It's how the US got Trump. The "Trump Train" was a meme, first.
Chromebooks are absolute garbage.
Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the "sticking scissors into a USB port" with some regularity)
Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though... it gets red hot and melts eventually
Is there a better option schools should be buying at a similar price point?
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When I was a middle schooler I definitely wanted to see what would happen from messing around with things like that would be like...
But I also wasn't inundated by short form videos trying it out and encouraging me to do it myself also as part of a trend...