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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have had this trouble too.  The school gives him a Chromebook and nothing else to do and then acts shocked the tenth time he does something thoughtless and dumb (never mean or threatening).  He doesn’t misuse screens at home so I feel powerless where the school won’t do what I know works (limiting screens; keeping him engaged in other things).

Can’t wait for summer.  No real ideas, just commiseration.

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As a teacher, I will tell you that most students do not do thoughtless and dumb things when presented with a Chromebook. Limiting screens at home is not having the effect you think it is having. If you raise a child in a home with only health foods, they will gorge on sugar the first time they encounter it. The child needs to learn judgment and impulse control. [/quote]

I doubt you are a real teacher or else you have a different view of what is “thoughtless and dumb.” Because my straight A middle school kid says just about everyone is goofing off on their chromebooks at some point in the day — playing games, looking up crap to buy at Sephora, etc. I seriously wish they didn’t have chromebooks or that they did a lot more on paper so teachers could say “leave your Chromebook in your backpack””, but that isn’t what is happening.[/quote]

I am a teacher and I can absolutely verify that kids get into trouble  ALL THE TIME  on their Chromebooks, phones, tablets. ALL THE TIME.

And here's a news flash- a teacher can actually get into serious trouble if a kid in her class is getting into trouble. If a kid accesses a sexual site, and shares that, the teacher can be charged. It's  still the wild west with technology in school  and there should  be better control technology.  As a teacher who teaches in the K-12 system  as well as a professor of college classes, I have less control of my K-12 class in terms of responsibility than the college classes. In college, I can instantly see what every connected computer is doing with one click,  and  I have controls of all their screens. That is designed to help with research and instruction, not to babysit  their  behavior. In K-12, no such technology is installed, and I  actually have  to babysit their behavior- all day , ALL DAY, without that technology.  If a teacher actually thinks kids in their class are largely being responsible,  that teacher is delusional  or technologically naive. 
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