Why would they not tell their parents? Genuine question from someone out of the loop. If my kid was questioning I would prefer I know, right? The school has the kid for the majority of their time awake during the school year. This makes sense to me.
Yeah, I had a user who was in Sales. Issued a new PC to her after 8 years. She didn't even know how to organize her bookmark bar in Chrome. I don't think Linux would even be able to come out of my mouth in terms of "Things our users might be able to use"