Another school day of video games

[Anonymous]

How was school son?

It was great we play video games on our Chromebooks almost all the day.

This keeps happening - we complain and get some nice words and then it happens again. Does no one care?

The kids do the minimum work and required and then back to games!

ARGGHHHHH

[Anonymous]

Have you met with the principal about it?

[Anonymous]

Name the school or it did not happen.

[Anonymous]

What do you do at home to attempt to correct the behavior? Or do you place 100% of the responsibility on teaching your child self control on the teacher?

[Anonymous]

You're going to get pushback here, OP, but you're right. Some of blame lies with administration, some of it with the individual teachers, but it's bullshit. Unfortunately, there's little to nothing parents can do to change how classes are designed and playing video games is how the education system has decided to structure them.

[Anonymous]

What were the games? What grade level of school?

[Anonymous]

It depends on what you mean. Are these apps that their teacher is assigning them to review math and reading lessons, or is your kid going off-task and playing games when he’s supposed to be working?

If it’s the latter, I suggest you consider what your response would be if this were on-computer off-task behavior. What would you do if he came home and said he spent all day making spitballs and throwing paper airplanes and wrestling on the floor? Would you blame all of that on the school or would you tell him to cut it out and focus on learning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Name the school or it did not happen.

Please. Say your name and we'll know you don't have any kids or any kids in this school system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name the school or it did not happen.

Please. Say your name and we'll know you don't have any kids or any kids in this school system

Btw,a different poster to the above post. Just so you know there is more than one person talking about Chromebooks.

[Anonymous]

This again? You post this every month.

Teachers in the MCPS system have the option of blocking any internet site they want, and can look at the screens of any students in their class, from their desk computer.

If your kid does the work and then has free time, the teacher might not care what they get up to. My second kid is in 10th grade and has always read books on Sora, the MCPS online library, instead of playing games. There were times in middle school when the teachers blocked game sites for other students, but let her read her books in class. Her chemistry teacher in 9th grade would block every website except a few scientific ones, and told her to read a science textbook when she was done with her work. This year, she was incensed that the English teacher briefly blocked her from reading, but he realized she had already read the assigned book they were discussing in class, and let her back into Sora.

Talk to your child's teachers if you are unhappy with their website access policy, OP.

[Anonymous]

Or maybe their last class had a sub and they did this and that is what your kid is remembering/reporting. If you are concerned about your child's education, make an appt to talk with their teacher, counselor, or Principal

[Anonymous]

I was at a school for poetry slam and saw kids playing chromebooks. The teacher did not say anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Name the school or it did not happen.

Sligo Creek elementary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you met with the principal about it?

Yes and they say a whole of nice words and nothing changes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you met with the principal about it?

Yes and they say a whole of nice words and nothing changes

And what did the teacher say?