GoGuardian: asking for parent support to advocate to the BOE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, is there any update on this?

Contract is cancelled. It's gone.

Source?

[Anonymous]

MS kids are SO happy Go Guardian is going away. Every time I close an inappropriate table they yell out to each other “Did you hear they won’t use Go Guardian next year?” This is of course after they’ve been caught trying to block it on their chrome books

[Anonymous]

Sampling bias goes both ways.

If bad teachers don't use GoGuardian because their if is easier when kids play video games all day, or they just generally don't care about those kids staying on task, having a large number of non users isn't good for the county.

[Anonymous]

"So far, the only rationale presented for eliminating GoGuardian is to save $233,925, which represents 0.007% of the proposed MCPS operating budget of 3.164 billion dollars. "

Oh my. What a huge budget. Why not just pay teachers waaay more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, is there any update on this?

Contract is cancelled. It's gone.

Source?

The BOE meeting.

[Anonymous]

If they got rid of it, they need to start cutting back on tech use

[Anonymous]

DS and his friends have a doc shared with links to games that are not properly blocked

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: "So far, the only rationale presented for eliminating GoGuardian is to save $233,925, which represents 0.007% of the proposed MCPS operating budget of 3.164 billion dollars. "

Oh my. What a huge budget. Why not just pay teachers waaay more?

They needed the money for a recent employment settlement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS and his friends have a doc shared with links to games that are not properly blocked

All the kids have these, and they’re constantly updated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: "So far, the only rationale presented for eliminating GoGuardian is to save $233,925, which represents 0.007% of the proposed MCPS operating budget of 3.164 billion dollars. "

Oh my. What a huge budget. Why not just pay teachers waaay more?

Teachers are paid well. They get regular raises too.

But, what they are keeping and cutting makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: "So far, the only rationale presented for eliminating GoGuardian is to save $233,925, which represents 0.007% of the proposed MCPS operating budget of 3.164 billion dollars. "

Oh my. What a huge budget. Why not just pay teachers waaay more?

These funds are beter spent on SROs and investigating anonymous complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: "So far, the only rationale presented for eliminating GoGuardian is to save $233,925, which represents 0.007% of the proposed MCPS operating budget of 3.164 billion dollars. "

Oh my. What a huge budget. Why not just pay teachers waaay more?

Teachers are paid well. They get regular raises too.

But, what they are keeping and cutting makes no sense.

It never does...

[Anonymous]

When I was in high school in the mid-1990’s we had electronic word processors. I don’t remember what they were called but all they did was let us write. It had a small screen and a full size keyboard. I checked them out from the school library and I could write my essay over night and in the morning the librarian would connect it to a computer and I would have my essay. Why doesn’t something like that exist? A device that only has the tools necessary. Then GoGiardian would be unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in high school in the mid-1990’s we had electronic word processors. I don’t remember what they were called but all they did was let us write. It had a small screen and a full size keyboard. I checked them out from the school library and I could write my essay over night and in the morning the librarian would connect it to a computer and I would have my essay. Why doesn’t something like that exist? A device that only has the tools necessary. Then GoGiardian would be unnecessary.

Because the internet is considered necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in high school in the mid-1990’s we had electronic word processors. I don’t remember what they were called but all they did was let us write. It had a small screen and a full size keyboard. I checked them out from the school library and I could write my essay over night and in the morning the librarian would connect it to a computer and I would have my essay. Why doesn’t something like that exist? A device that only has the tools necessary. Then GoGiardian would be unnecessary.

Because the internet is considered necessary.

When I was in school, we could purchase blank parchment and quills from the school quartermaster. They should go back to this.