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A couple months ago I wrote a rant about Chromebooks https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029-1965-563c-f1a7-909742834478 and how to enable my kid to use it.

Today it is heavily snowing in Brooklyn and so instead of a Snow Day during which schools are closed, we're having a Remote School Day and this means having to join a Zoom meeting. However, the Zoom meeting the teacher created requires to sign in to Zoom. We tried signing in my kid with her personal Google account, but couldn't lie during the birth year prompt, and were denied the creation of a Zoom account because our kid isn't 13 yet. Tried to sign in with Apple, but were also denied as the Apple account apparently provides the owner's age directly without prompt.

At this point, I assume New York City Department of Education-issued Google accounts also have a provision for underage Zoom accounts to allow students to sign in teacher-led Zoom meetings, but I absolutely don't want to test this theory as it would be relinquishing the rights to use a computer we paid for with our own money to the NYCDOE once again.

We ended up using my partner's account to sign in Zoom and let me kid in, which isn't ideal, but sheesh.