Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I’m old but why the heck are parents blaming the school when their kids chooses to play video games? I would come down really hard on that as a parent if I found out. It’s like saying “of course my kid is throwing paper airplanes in class all day! You gave him access to paper!”

At home our devices are locked down. Same with the phones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish this petition went further and called for the end of personal school issued devices.

+1 fully agree

[Anonymous]

Done! Thanks for sharing the petition. Signed it as a parent & a MCPS teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I’m old but why the heck are parents blaming the school when their kids chooses to play video games? I would come down really hard on that as a parent if I found out. It’s like saying “of course my kid is throwing paper airplanes in class all day! You gave him access to paper!”

I don't think that's a great analogy, considering tech is designed to be addictive, unlike paper. It's more like putting a big bowl of M&M's on every student's desk every day.

+1,000

Pro tip to the PP: most new parents today realize pretty quickly that most older adults who had kids decades ago don't really remember much about parenting and have no idea what things are like now. Don't embarrass yourself. I just read that something like a quarter of kids have watched porn at school. Even if it isn't your kid, do you want that around your kid? Is that conducive to learning, and if not is the solution to tell parents to tell their kids to stop? Be honest, would you be satisfied if that was the school's answer to your kid being exposed to porn they didn't choose to watch at school?

They remember a lot. Kids watched tv, read magazines, had video games too....clearly you are too young to remember. I'm in my 50's and we had computers starting in elemetary school - oregon trail at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I’m old but why the heck are parents blaming the school when their kids chooses to play video games? I would come down really hard on that as a parent if I found out. It’s like saying “of course my kid is throwing paper airplanes in class all day! You gave him access to paper!”

Yes, you must be old, as you don't understand what MCPS is like these days. MCPS gives kids Chromebooks, but doesn't have sufficient controls on them such that kids can't put video games on them. Parents are not in the classrooms to police this behavior at school. Teachers either don't know or don't have the bandwidth to stop the behavior when there are 30+ kids in class--it's not like the kids are playing video games loudly and disrupting class as in your paper airplane analogy where it's obvious. And parents don't have admin rights to the Chromebooks to delete any games or block any websites that are inappropriate or may be used, only MCPS does.

There are the excuses again. Yes I am old but I am currently employed by MCPS. And guess what: there are plenty of kids who do their work and respect their teachers and don’t google porn for God’s sake. Stop making excuses for the ones who are breaking the rules and getting away with it. “But my teacher didn’t stop me” isn’t an excuse. Don’t fool yourself that “everybody is doing it.” The kids fooling around on their Chromebooks are the same kids who disrupt the class every other way already. This is why one of the many reasons teachers are leaving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

There is no need for one to one devices but I think PP is saying MCPS should block non educational uses. Kids do not need access to the Internet all day long, that's insane that it's allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

Chromebooks only run on google. There is nothing to replace it except a laptop, macbook or tablet, all much more money and less secure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

Chromebooks only run on google. There is nothing to replace it except a laptop, macbook or tablet, all much more money and less secure.

Block. The. Internet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I’m old but why the heck are parents blaming the school when their kids chooses to play video games? I would come down really hard on that as a parent if I found out. It’s like saying “of course my kid is throwing paper airplanes in class all day! You gave him access to paper!”

Yes, you must be old, as you don't understand what MCPS is like these days. MCPS gives kids Chromebooks, but doesn't have sufficient controls on them such that kids can't put video games on them. Parents are not in the classrooms to police this behavior at school. Teachers either don't know or don't have the bandwidth to stop the behavior when there are 30+ kids in class--it's not like the kids are playing video games loudly and disrupting class as in your paper airplane analogy where it's obvious. And parents don't have admin rights to the Chromebooks to delete any games or block any websites that are inappropriate or may be used, only MCPS does.

There are the excuses again. Yes I am old but I am currently employed by MCPS. And guess what: there are plenty of kids who do their work and respect their teachers and don’t google porn for God’s sake. Stop making excuses for the ones who are breaking the rules and getting away with it. “But my teacher didn’t stop me” isn’t an excuse. Don’t fool yourself that “everybody is doing it.” The kids fooling around on their Chromebooks are the same kids who disrupt the class every other way already. This is why one of the many reasons teachers are leaving.

You may be employed by MCPS, but you clearly are not doing anything that involves being in a classroom if you are equating kids disrupting classrooms by "throwing paper airplanes" to the problems parents and teachers describing of with kids having access to Chromebooks and accessing inappropriate content.

I am disturbed that my tax dollars pay your salary, as you have an attitude that is not consistent with keeping children safe. You are blaming kids for accessing material that is not age appropriate, but which MCPS fails to block on computers that they require students to use during the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I’m old but why the heck are parents blaming the school when their kids chooses to play video games? I would come down really hard on that as a parent if I found out. It’s like saying “of course my kid is throwing paper airplanes in class all day! You gave him access to paper!”

Yes, you must be old, as you don't understand what MCPS is like these days. MCPS gives kids Chromebooks, but doesn't have sufficient controls on them such that kids can't put video games on them. Parents are not in the classrooms to police this behavior at school. Teachers either don't know or don't have the bandwidth to stop the behavior when there are 30+ kids in class--it's not like the kids are playing video games loudly and disrupting class as in your paper airplane analogy where it's obvious. And parents don't have admin rights to the Chromebooks to delete any games or block any websites that are inappropriate or may be used, only MCPS does.

There are the excuses again. Yes I am old but I am currently employed by MCPS. And guess what: there are plenty of kids who do their work and respect their teachers and don’t google porn for God’s sake. Stop making excuses for the ones who are breaking the rules and getting away with it. “But my teacher didn’t stop me” isn’t an excuse. Don’t fool yourself that “everybody is doing it.” The kids fooling around on their Chromebooks are the same kids who disrupt the class every other way already. This is why one of the many reasons teachers are leaving.

You may be employed by MCPS, but you clearly are not doing anything that involves being in a classroom if you are equating kids disrupting classrooms by "throwing paper airplanes" to the problems parents and teachers describing of with kids having access to Chromebooks and accessing inappropriate content.

I am disturbed that my tax dollars pay your salary, as you have an attitude that is not consistent with keeping children safe. You are blaming kids for accessing material that is not age appropriate, but which MCPS fails to block on computers that they require students to use during the school day.

Maybe she likes the porn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

There is no need for one to one devices but I think PP is saying MCPS should block non educational uses. Kids do not need access to the Internet all day long, that's insane that it's allowed.

In elementary no, in MS and HS yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

Chromebooks only run on google. There is nothing to replace it except a laptop, macbook or tablet, all much more money and less secure.

Block. The. Internet.

Google is internet based. Do you not understand what a chromebook is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

Chromebooks only run on google. There is nothing to replace it except a laptop, macbook or tablet, all much more money and less secure.

Block. The. Internet.

Then the device does not function.

Should MCPS buy carts full of electric typewriters because a few kids can’t control themselves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with using Chromebooks, I have an issue with Chromebooks having so many distractions and not being adequately locked down. If during class a kid could only open one single application I’d be all for it.

What vendor do you suggest to replace Google?

Chromebooks only run on google. There is nothing to replace it except a laptop, macbook or tablet, all much more money and less secure.

Block. The. Internet.

Google is internet based. Do you not understand what a chromebook is?

Could everything be blocked other than a whitelist of sites that are needed? That might work better than individually blocking the distracting sites.