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AI tools are showing up in more classrooms, often through the accounts children already use at school. Some are helpful, and some do more of a child's thinking than a parent would want. You do not need to be an expert to judge them. The six questions below work for any tool, whether a school chose it or you did, and you can ask them of your child's teacher too.

Find out who signs in and who owns what the tool keeps. A tool that gives a child their own account also gives that child their own history, settings and messages that a parent may never see. In Baccare there are no child accounts at all: a parent holds the account, and a child uses Baccare inside it (why Baccare has no child accounts).

Ask whether the AI parts start working the day your child signs in, or only after a parent agrees. In Baccare, the AI features (Ask Bacc, Notes Studio) and the microphone stay off for a child until a parent verifies consent, as our Children's Privacy Notice describes.

A tool that writes the essay or solves the problem gives your child a finished answer and very little learning. Ask what happens when a child types a homework question and asks for the answer. Ask Bacc is built to respond the way a good tutor does: it asks what your child has tried and points to the next small step, rather than handing over a solution (what Ask Bacc will not do).

If a child can talk to an AI, a parent should be able to read the conversation. Ask whether you can, and whether anything worrying is brought to your attention. In Baccare, a parent can read every Ask Bacc conversation on the Ask Bacc conversations page, and anything the safety checks flag is listed there first, under Safety review.

Some tools use what children type to improve their AI models. Ask directly, and look for the answer in the privacy policy rather than a marketing page. Baccare does not use your family's conversations or notes to train any AI model, and our AI provider's terms say it does not train on them either. Our Privacy Policy lists, feature by feature, what is sent to the AI and what is not.

Not every part of learning needs AI. Practice questions can be written and checked ahead of time, and a spoken answer can be compared with the right one without sending anything to an AI. Most of Baccare works that way: the practice activities are written in advance, and when your child answers out loud in Spanish practice, the answer is checked against written answers, not by AI. A tool that uses AI only where it helps is easier to trust.

You are allowed to ask the school which AI tools are in use, which accounts they create for your child, what they keep, and whether you can opt out. A clear, short answer is a good sign. A vague one is worth a follow-up question.