The impact LLMs have on education is arguably orders of magnitude higher than calculators
Not really, its just calculators for all the other classes.
And tbh, lots of people historically would have loved a calculator that could write an essay about shakespeare or help code a simple game.
It's how you approach it.
You tell it to act as a tutor, it'll act as one. Tell it to solve your homework in the form of a poem, it'll do that.
That's not just a calculator, even though it's just calculating, just as much as a computer isn't just a voltage switcher, even thought it's just switching voltages.
Sure but even if a graphics calculator could recite poetry, its application to the maths class is to crunch numbers.
You can ask chat gpt to pretend to be Julius Caesar, it still probably shouldnt be in an english exam.