This is exactly what my teacher wife is doing. She has asked me to find a way to force Chromebooks to be completely offline so they can be used as simple word processors.
I am RIGHT NOW sitting in a regional public education task force meeting where we are trying to decide how to guide our schools through the AI minefield. The only thing I can do is remind everyone that *if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.*
Should an encrypted hard drive safe to hand it over as it is? E.g., BitLocker on Windows or something similar on Linux. I suppose the data is not accessible without the decryption key, right?