Kids Probably Shouldn’t Plan on Wearing Smart Glasses to School
THE SO WHAT
Smart glasses are running into the same institutional wall phones did—schools are defaulting to bans rather than trust their own ability to govern always-on cameras and displays. If you’re building headworn or ambient capture products, assume hostile-by-default policies in education and other regulated environments and design for hard-disable, visible status, and admin controls from day one.
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