Back-to-school shopping in Georgia now comes with a sneaky surcharge: keeping up with your kid’s classroom artificial intelligence without melting the family modem.

As schools plug in more AI-powered tools, many households are discovering the hidden homework is financial, upgrading laptops, boosting Wi-Fi and paying for subscriptions just to keep pace.

💸 Why It Matters: Tech creep isn’t new and it hits families first, and hardest. If your child’s Chromebook wheezes through an AI assignment, they’re the one falling behind. The National Retail Federation projects K–12 families will spend an average of $858.07 this year—and more of that is drifting from pencils to processors.

🤖 What’s New In Class: Artificial intelligence isn’t coming—it’s here. Digital Promise reports 93% of 31 scho

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