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The Feedback That Ships Without the Grade

Google Classroom’s Gemini integration shipped on time — and that was the constraint that mattered. This piece examines what the product team chose to leave out: multilingual feedback, audit logs, automated grading — each absent feature a resourcing decision, not a capability gap. The bill arrives when schools discover the tool live, teachers unprepared, and no safeguarding audit layer in place.