Laptops for every kid is the worst decision made in modern education

[Anonymous]

My children are in public schools in a “great” school/area, but having a laptop for each student and using them for every class, almost every assignment, is the worst decision in educational policy. I have heard from my kids of so many instances during class time when kids are using their school-issued laptops to not only get answers from AI, but carry out full discussions with AI, as well as using their laptops to video record and photograph other kids and then use those images in generative AI in horrible ways. The teachers have alternately either done nothing when told about this, or are seemingly unaware when this goes on under their noses. This happens in AAP, AP, every class, all the time. The kids have no attention span, aren’t learning, and are becoming socially maladapted for any functioning society.

[Anonymous]

School districts don't care and will blame parents (their go-to excuse for their own incompetence) for as long as they can get away with it. Parents have to go to state legislators to fix this.

[Anonymous]

I agree. The daily screen time an average third grader gets it’s bonkers. And that doesn’t even count the teachers use is the promethian board for slides and videos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School districts don't care and will blame parents (their go-to excuse for their own incompetence) for as long as they can get away with it. Parents have to go to state legislators to fix this.

This. The administrators and teachers found a way to do as little as possible. They don’t care if their kids become imbeciles.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you need to work with your kids on this.

[Anonymous]

Agreed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School districts don't care and will blame parents (their go-to excuse for their own incompetence) for as long as they can get away with it. Parents have to go to state legislators to fix this.

This. The administrators and teachers found a way to do as little as possible. They don’t care if their kids become imbeciles.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Indeed. The cheating even in AP classes (per my kid) is rampant and needs to be addressed! Younger kids have no attention span at all and seem unable NOT to open game tabs when laptops are used (I’m in classrooms), and now on top of all of this teachers are using AI to create, review, and grade work. Seems like there should be more research and sharing of findings on all of this with families before we are all part of a big experiment with our kids’ grades and future prospects at play.

[Anonymous]

The only teachers that are lazy are tenured ones. Non tenure push 60+ hrs per week because there is so much to do ie grading, meetings, parents, emails ,planning. Our teacher rights and supports are not there so it's an impossible mismanaged plate of duties. This is the wayy admin can just pick and choose who stays and who goes employment wise. Great teachers are usually the ones fired bc they have standards and rules- also they don't give in to questionable demands like grade inflation and nonreporting of crime.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't even say all tenured teachers are lazy. That is so mean. I would say churned and burned out as there is management on so many facets of education that results in burdensome stress and negative health effects. Plus because of the stress there is not much time to eat healthy meals and sleep healthy hours. I think veteran teachers don't want the job to give them a stress induced disease. It's not worth it.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher, and reading the first message I totally agree. But reading the later messages about how this means teachers are lazy is ridiculous and offensive. My colleagues and I are working hard within a challenging school system with lots of requirements on what we do, including requirements on how we use tech. I encourage parents to advocate for change, as I do in my school. But if you start blaming and insulting teachers, you lose the support of the people who are working most directly with your children.

[Anonymous]

It wasn’t the worst decision made in modern education in 2020 when COVID hit and that is why there are laptops for every kid. So much money was invested in them, they had to stick with the programs and laptops until the contracts ran out. (Probably at least 5 years) which brings us to the course correction which is right about now. So, go champion that post COVID, we need a laptop reduction, but leave the slagging of teachers out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It wasn’t the worst decision made in modern education in 2020 when COVID hit and that is why there are laptops for every kid. So much money was invested in them, they had to stick with the programs and laptops until the contracts ran out. (Probably at least 5 years) which brings us to the course correction which is right about now. So, go champion that post COVID, we need a laptop reduction, but leave the slagging of teachers out of it.

MCPS Board of Education is voting today on a proposal to go back to 1:1 Chromebook distribution. They have absolutely ZERO intention of course correcting because they are part of the edtech grift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It wasn’t the worst decision made in modern education in 2020 when COVID hit and that is why there are laptops for every kid. So much money was invested in them, they had to stick with the programs and laptops until the contracts ran out. (Probably at least 5 years) which brings us to the course correction which is right about now. So, go champion that post COVID, we need a laptop reduction, but leave the slagging of teachers out of it.

MCPS Board of Education is voting today on a proposal to go back to 1:1 Chromebook distribution. They have absolutely ZERO intention of course correcting because they are part of the edtech grift.

That is sad. APS is moving away from tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School districts don't care and will blame parents (their go-to excuse for their own incompetence) for as long as they can get away with it. Parents have to go to state legislators to fix this.

This. The administrators and teachers found a way to do as little as possible. They don’t care if their kids become imbeciles.

Why are you blaming teachers? We are told what we must teach (down to the slides) and how we must teach it. I guess because "equity"? Heaven forbid one class gets a better teacher than another, we can't have that so all teachers must teach exactly the same thing.