a (temporary) win for meta glasses in the classroom

A student in Vienna, Austria has recently made the news because he has refused to stop using his Meta smart glasses at school, causing a legal dispute, and - to the surprise and outrage of many - actually preventing his expulsion. For now, he is allowed to keep wearing them and attend school until a solution is found. Why is that? I've looked at the relevant court case documents (the interim procedural ruling W224 2346501-1) and the (final) substantive judgment W224 2346501-1 on RIS) to get the facts for the case and to try and understand the justifications for this decision. the factsThe student started wearing the smart glasses in December 2025. News articles allege that within days of students complaining about the glasses, the school amended their house rules to forbid the glasses, yet he kept wearing them. After repeatedly failing to adhere to the teachers' requests to stop using the glasses, he was excluded from school for multiple weeks (16th to 23rd of March, 27th March to…