This makes perfect sense. How is it even news?

Google Search uses lots of AI. Google is now allowing schools to turn off all AI entirely. That, obviously turns off Google Search. This is the feature working as intended.

It seems like school administrators will get to control which products get AI, individually. Which is what they've been asking for:

> After listening to schools, teachers, leading researchers, and policymakers, we are now updating our approach to controls for Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search. Access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on.

Am I missing something here...? This announcement seems to be 100% good, but people are writing like it's 100% bad.