Multiple K-12 sysadmins express strong negative sentiment towards using Roblox in schools, citing poor brand reputation, safety issues, and lawsuits related to grooming.

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        "excerpt": "I wouldn't put anything with the name roblox near my school. Even if it were an entirely enclosed ecosystem the name is getting some well deserved recognition for all the wrong reasons. Optics would not be good.",
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        "excerpt": "We used to do that in our game development class. We banned all Roblox last year after multiple lawsuits about grooming and sexual assaults. I was happy to have it in writing that I was against it from the very beginning.",
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        "excerpt": "When we looked into this previously, it wasn't like Minecraft where there are separate URLs and whatnot you can allow while blocking the actual base game. To allow this, you also had to allow normal Roblox.\n\n EDIT - I may potentially be confusing this with the 'educational' worlds https://about.roblox.com/education",
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