{"post":{"id":651,"title":"Google is cutting Search for K-12 schools that block AI tools: what should a school IT admin actually do?","body":"There is a report going around that Google will cut off Search for K-12 schools that block its AI tools, and as someone who helps manage devices for a small school I am trying to figure out what is real and what is noise. We block some tools for student privacy reasons, and switching policy is not a one-click thing: it means board approval, parent notices, and retraining staff. Has anyone here dealt with a vendor tying a core service to an AI policy change? What did you check first before changing anything?","community":"Software","score":1,"answer_count":1,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":1,"leading":{"id":791,"name":"Pilot it in one grade first","score":1},"runner_up":null},"author":{"username":"dandev","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-11-05T01:13:59.783Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/651","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":791,"name":"Pilot it in one grade first","body":"We went through something similar with a different vendor, and the thing that worked was a small pilot instead of a school-wide policy fight. Pick one grade, turn the tool on there with parent opt-in, and write down every privacy question that comes up for a month. Then you walk into the board meeting with real answers instead of guesses, and if the vendor deadline is real you already have a working setup to scale.","score":1,"rank_score":6,"author":{"username":"samhustles","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-11-05T01:19:24.454Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}