Others in this thread suggest compartmentalization, and that may very well be all that you can achieve given your circumstances, but I don’t think you should think compartmentalization alone is acceptable. I see two reasons to go further.
- Practical privacy and security risks.
- Opposition to technological dehumanization.
I don’t know what data Google actually collects and how they process it, but I imagine it does or will (in addition to standard PII) collect, analyze, categorize, rank, evaluate etc. students’ school work, academic performance, skills/talents, personal preferences, biometrics, writing style, religious views, political persuasion and many other characteristics, which could be leaked or abused with wide-ranging consequences. I believe schools not only employ Google technology but are also somewhat controlled by it, and the technology erases the humanity in education in a variety of ways. Google among other big tech companies are attempting to normalize surveillance and digital exploitation in schools with the aim of instilling that into current and future school students, eventually eradicating the belief that privacy is important. I despise the parents, teachers, school principals, governments and big tech who think this dehumanization is acceptable.
Children who are incapable of consenting should not be subject to this kind of system against their will. The parents, teachers, school principals, governments and big tech who willingly subject children to that system against their will should be ashamed of themselves.
That is how school work was done, and it worked just fine. Some schools still do that. In today’s techno-authoritarian society, complying with the system further normalizes dehumanization, and privacy needs to be actively maintained. I recognize doing that today goes against a techno-authoritarian school system upheld by authoritarians and groupthink, so in that context that sounds like a courageous and admirable thing to do. Give it a try as far as you’re willing to try, and see how it goes.
If what you believe is true, your school should be fixing a broken system, not punishing its students. Did your classmate appeal to the school to get the problem resolved?