Nothing gets “installed” in the traditional sense on a chromebook.
When you login to the chromebook, you can log in with any Google credentials. The credentials the school gave your son are managed by them. If you log into that account, it configured the user session per the management of the account, so this will start a “managed” session for that managed user.
If you use a personal Google account, none of that should happen. It’s not a managed account, it’s a normal one, and there shouldnt be any additional provisioning.
You should be able to switch between them and use both independently.
However, if you are saying that is what you are doing, and the spyware isn’t respecting the config between users, then that is definitely a problem.
This. My kids have chromebooks, and they have two accounts active on their devices, on at their .k12 for school stuff, and one for their gmail that is open.
Do you actually trust google not to be collecting data on both accounts and link them together somewhere? When I was in school we used to get told that bad behavior would end up in our "permanent record" which would follow us for life, but while that was a lie we all have a permanent record now and nearly every action no matter how mundane or benign gets saved to it.
When I got my cell phone the default keyboard was sending everything I typed to a 3rd party whose privacy policy stated they were collecting data for everything from market research to trying to understand my intelligence/cognitive abilities. I replaced the default keyboard. I can't imagine the wealth of data Google could be collecting form children, their test scores and their associations with other children. They may claim not to collect and store data on your kids, but there are no regulations and nobody is checking. Only a whistleblower could tell you what Google is actually doing. I haven't seen much reason to trust them.
> I can't imagine the wealth of data Google could be collecting form children, their test scores and their associations with other children.
This is...funny, given that apparently the OP's child's school is using Google Classroom - which means Google is the provider and the system for storing/giving/recording/managing test scores, so of course they store test scores since they are paid to provide that. Likewise, on Google Classroom, kids can interact with each other and of course Google stores those.
When you login to the chromebook, you can log in with any Google credentials. The credentials the school gave your son are managed by them. If you log into that account, it configured the user session per the management of the account, so this will start a “managed” session for that managed user.
If you use a personal Google account, none of that should happen. It’s not a managed account, it’s a normal one, and there shouldnt be any additional provisioning.
You should be able to switch between them and use both independently.
However, if you are saying that is what you are doing, and the spyware isn’t respecting the config between users, then that is definitely a problem.