The educational platform i-Ready has recently faced a large amount of pushback. Over the past few months, a multitude of individuals have expressed discontent with the platform over whether or not i-Ready is really preparing students academically. I-Ready, widely used in classrooms around the United States, is an online program used by schools for reading and mathematics, designed to be used by students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

In February 2026, John Allen Wooden wrote a piece, “The Plot to Replace Teachers with Tech: The Popular i-Ready Platform Dulls Young Minds”. It begins with how many individuals are feeling negatively about the site and expands to a larger conversation about how technology is taking over schools in a negative way. This garnered a lot of attention and inspired many to also share their opinions on i-Ready. Teachers, parents and students alike have expressed discontent with aspects such as students finding it disinteresting, teachers finding that they can’t pull useful data about their students from the platform, as well as a general rising opinion that students aren’t learning much from the platform.

The company behind i-Ready has also been hit with a lawsuit claiming that the platform steals student’s data. In regard to the lawsuit the platform has stated, “We do not sell student data to third parties, use student data for advertising, or build commercial profiles on students.” But this combined with controversy over the usefulness of the platform is making it seem far less appealing for many.