Quite honestly, those kids will get more technology education out of using 15 year old linux machines or slow as hell raspberry pis than the eternal distraction machine that is a modern laptop wired to the internet and youtube/tiktok/instagram.

The real problem is that chromebooks are designed to run web applications which you rely on and which have become more bloated over time.

The real question is what are the students supposed to learn on those laptops? Is it how to type? Use Google Docs? How to program?

A Chromebook has sufficient hardware to do all that. Heck, a 20 year old laptop is sufficient for doing that.

I'm 37, and remember learning how to type on wildly out-of-date Apple II machines in the mid 90s.