MS Chromebook collection/policy next year

[Anonymous]

Our middle school announced that next year they will be employing the "cart" method for Chromebooks, where students do not have a personal Chromebook but rather check one out for each class in which it needs to be used. To this end, they all turned in their Chromebooks last week at school. My DS is very frustrated by this, and thinks it will be a big pain to sign out the Chromebooks and log in, etc., and it doesn't seem like this is an MCPS-wide policy. Are other schools doing this too? Any idea why? Also how are they supposed to do computer work at home?

[Anonymous]

Same at our ES. I hope that making it more of a pain means they will use them less. The amount of screen time this year was ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Almost everything is in the google cloud - signing into a different chromebook has no practical impact at school.

Some kids download videos at home and save them offline on their chromebooks so they could watch without them showing up in goguardian. Along with a few game apps that sneak by MCPS central controls (it's whack-a-mole). Those things wouldn't work any more. And some kids do some (unnecessary) customizing that doesn't transfer, either.

Having them at home for (so far theoretical) virtual snow days would be a different problem, and they wouldn't be able to do homework - or finish classwork - at home on them.

[Anonymous]

This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same at our ES. I hope that making it more of a pain means they will use them less. The amount of screen time this year was ridiculous.

God I hope so too. My kindergartener always wanted to play games on it at home too because they spent so much of the day playing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

+1 This worked for years before COVID, it's not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

+1 This worked for years before COVID, it's not a big deal.

A lot of homework is online so it’s an issue for families who cannot afford computers. But, you don’t need one to do anything mcps as we don’t have any.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same at our ES. I hope that making it more of a pain means they will use them less. The amount of screen time this year was ridiculous.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

+1 This worked for years before COVID, it's not a big deal.

A lot of homework is online so it’s an issue for families who cannot afford computers. But, you don’t need one to do anything mcps as we don’t have any.

The county gives our free computers to anyone who wants/needs one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

+1 This worked for years before COVID, it's not a big deal.

A lot of homework is online so it’s an issue for families who cannot afford computers. But, you don’t need one to do anything mcps as we don’t have any.

The county gives our free computers to anyone who wants/needs one.

But, that is not the discussion. They are no longer after next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Same at our ES. I hope that making it more of a pain means they will use them less. The amount of screen time this year was ridiculous.

Agreed.

They were heavily used before Covid. Keep dreaming.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

+1 This worked for years before COVID, it's not a big deal.

A lot of homework is online so it’s an issue for families who cannot afford computers. But, you don’t need one to do anything mcps as we don’t have any.

The county gives our free computers to anyone who wants/needs one.

But, that is not the discussion. They are no longer after next year.

No, they still will. But you have to request an at-home computer. Kids won’t be automatically given one to use both at home and in class.
I’m curious to see whether teachers will return to the pre-covid days of mostly paper assignments.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

+1 This worked for years before COVID, it's not a big deal.

A lot of homework is online so it’s an issue for families who cannot afford computers. But, you don’t need one to do anything mcps as we don’t have any.

The county gives our free computers to anyone who wants/needs one.

But, that is not the discussion. They are no longer after next year.

No, they still will. But you have to request an at-home computer. Kids won’t be automatically given one to use both at home and in class.
I’m curious to see whether teachers will return to the pre-covid days of mostly paper assignments.

I like that as we have no interest in having one. Most schools have limited paper. Doubt they will go back.

[Anonymous]

Like so many decisions at mcps it was farmed out to the principals. My school is staying 1 to 1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is how it was done pre-Covid and my kids didn't find it difficult. As I understand it, they were given individual Chromebooks once school reopened to cut down on spreading germs. I thought that policy made sense.

+1 This worked for years before COVID, it's not a big deal.

A lot of homework is online so it’s an issue for families who cannot afford computers. But, you don’t need one to do anything mcps as we don’t have any.

Kids who need devices for homework can sign one out for the year, as well as mifi devices.

I've heard that a lot of kids were trashing their devices so schools wanted to go back to the cart model so there's a bit more oversight