Seventy-nine percent of students in the local school district are economically disadvantaged. This fall, Salamanca High School was set to welcome a new classroom presence: a humanoid robot named Sally. The district purchased Sally — and a companion AI avatar that students access on laptops — from a Toronto-based company called Realbotix for $57,590. Bringing it into the school district is contradicting everything we believe.” The New York State United Teachers union has called for strict limits on AI and screen time in schools.