Homeschooling Credentials? I cancelled my Adobe apps through iTunes in order to get the bundled disc

Hi, I'm so frustrated right now!! So I upgraded from my iPhone 8+ to an iPhone 11max pro, but instead of the 512, I was sent only 64gb storage, (pretty sure my daughter's mistake). Anyway, I'm a photographer and my grandson dropped my camera bag with both my Nikon lenses in the river on a fishing outing, each costing about 1/3 of the canon camera itself. Needless to say I got pretty discouraged and stopped shooting with my camera for the most part over a year ago. My 8+ was taking great photos actually, but the pro max even better, but literally I have ZERO enjoyment out of the phone because since DAY ONE the storage has been full due to my photos, and photos on my adobe apps and other related photo apps, even though I have 1TB that's barely touched. I can't edit videos and I was forced to cancel the subscriptions because when I tried to edit photos in Lightroom or any adobe app from the cloud, like I'm supposed to be able to do, it wasn't happening?? HOWEVER... When I went to upgrade via adobe (the main culprit of my storage issues... I think ☹☹😫), I saw the student/teacher bundle, which by all due respect I believe I qualify for, EXCEPT, for the fact that I'm ALSO a photographer...🤔 🤔, and do edit for business purposes as well. I homeschool my preschool granddaughter, and my kindergarten grandson, but I have no formal credential to provide? Also, I can not justify $50 per month since I don't have a laptop yet. (Was waiting for my pandemic unemployment back payment, as I was DENIED the first time, and had to wait, wait, wait.....) If anyone could offer any advice on the best specs for a MacBook Pro, or even if there's other laptops out there other photographers want to recommend? I'm not up to date on what I need for internal specifications, but this is going to be a one shot deal so, yeah... sorry so lengthy. Thank you🤗