Under thirteen: the line that moves when the students do
Lesson 6 of 6 · Student data and the line you cannot cross
1 · Learn the move · Red-team audit
The federal children's online privacy rule treats a child under thirteen differently from one over [P], and most consumer AI tools say in their own terms that nobody under thirteen may use them at all, while others require a parent's consent that a school may give only in a narrow case. The line is not where the student data lives; it is who sits at the keyboard. A sixth-grade teacher who has students use a tool directly has crossed a line a ninth-grade teacher has not, even with identical pastes. Red-team your own classroom: for every tool a student touches, what does the tool's own terms say about age; what does your district's policy say about student accounts; what does the consent your district collected actually cover; and what happens to the student's inputs once they are in. If any answer is 'I do not know', the audit has found the finding.
Here is how I plan to use an AI tool with my students, with the grade level and the tool's published terms and age policy pasted: [paste]. Red-team the plan. For each tool a student touches: what the terms say about minimum age (quote); what consent, if any, the terms require and who may give it (quote); what the tool does with a student's inputs (quote); and what my district's policy says about student accounts (quote or SILENT). Then list every finding where the plan and a quoted line disagree, or where the answer is unknown. Do not tell me the plan is fine.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A sixth-grade science teacher at Larkspur Middle wants students to ask a chatbot questions during a unit on weather. Half the class is twelve. The tool's terms set a minimum age of thirteen with no school-consent path. The district's policy allows student accounts only on the two listed platforms, neither of which is this one. The red-team finds two disagreements and one unknown (what the listed platforms do with student inputs). The unit runs with the teacher at the keyboard and the questions on the board, which the audit also notes is a different lesson.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
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