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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't you have to sign a technology use agreement that school devices are for school work only or something to that effect? Why is she surfing the web on the school computer? Pimple popping doesn't sound like it's related to school work. She broke the rules.[/quote]

I would contest OP because as others have pointed out context matters and she does not deserve that on her record. For the people who are being really literal about school tech agreements I get it but you should know there's a real equity issue.

Children who have home computers (and many of them bring it to their schools during the school day) aren't usually doing those kinds of searches on their school issued devices. It's kids who cannot afford a separate home computer or kids with special needs who have impulsive or compulsive issues that end up doing this.

I work at a school that recently found a number of kids using the computer for non-school related searches, and it was striking how every single name I saw of a child I knew either had special needs or is from an area in our boundaries that is public housing. We need to educate, not punish.[/quote]

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