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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop generalizing. All MCPS teachers can monitor what each student is doing on their laptop at any given time. They can then block any site they choose remotely. My 15 year old daughter has seen it in action this year, and last year, and as far back as she can remember.

At Westland and BCC, teachers enforce that pretty systematically. Sometimes when the teacher is distracted, a kid gets through, but it's not at all the free-for-all you're claiming it is.

If your kid is telling you that everyone is watching whatever they want, take it with a grain of salt: perhaps that teacher allows it when kids finish their work. Perhaps that teacher doesn't know how to use the blocking software, or doesn't care.

My daughter likes to access the Sora library on her chromebook to read in class, and usually teachers let her. Sometimes they block it when they want everyone to pay attention to an announcement. [/quote]

These excuses are maddening. I want teachers to focus on teaching. I don't want them to have to spend their time policing the screens.

Best option is more classroom class time and homework on paper and in discussions without screens altogether.[/quote]

PP you replied to. If you want to go back to pen and paper, I am all for it, because research has shown that humans retain more information when they handwrite than when they type.

But let's not conflate various topics. I just want you to stop catastrophizing. My kids have gone through their MCPS education without getting distracted by websites in class, they've been able to follow teacher directions, and teachers have not expressed any problems with blocking Youtube or whatever else. It's much easier to do that policing phone use (which they don't have to do anymore). And I promise you that in high school, when your kid is juggling 4 AP classes every year, they're not going to want to do something else than listen to the teachers!

Bottom line - blocking websites in class is not the big deal you think it is.

But yeah, pen and paper sounds great. I taught my kids cursive when they were little. It would be a great idea, but alas, I don't think the world is moving that way at all.

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