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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I asked my kid how it went. He’s at WL. I reminded him that it’s the policy and he said “I never used my phone during the day anyway. The teachers are just being bigger d*cks about it now and standing in the hallway yelling at us to put phones away.”

[b]None of this means he’s paying more attention - he’s on his laptop listening to Spotify and watching YouTube[/b]. [/quote]

So you’ve failed as a parent and you’re announcing it? What an odd choice.[/quote]

What exactly am I supposed to do about it when he’s at school? I have told the teachers they can remove his computer or give him demerits or whatever, but they don’t. It’s their classroom. [/quote]

I would tell them he needs to do his homework on paper and not have a school provided laptop. I would make him change the password and only I would have it, so he can’t use it at school and only can use electronics under my supervision. [/quote]

Good luck with that.[/quote]
I’m in tech and these are very easy controls to implement. What would I need good luck on?[/quote]

Tell me you haven’t been in a school without telling me you haven’t been in a school. Have you looked at APS laptops? They’re all locked and configured at the school level and parents can’t change them. In middle school they blocked many sites but they don’t seem to be doing it in high school. Also, they don’t use textbooks and half the time they don’t give the kids paper copies of books to read. It’s all “online”. [/quote]

A parent can change the password. Step one. [/quote]
If your kid doesn't have a laptop, you don't need to change the password. So, Step one: parent buys all the online textbooks and coordinates with every single teacher to get hard copies of every reading excerpt and any tidbit of whatever each teacher is using to fill out their curriculum. Good luck with doing that and doing it in a timely manner. Not everything is set in stone on day one. Teachers modify their lessons and plans as they go along throughout the year. Don't know what you're going to do re assignments on apps.

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Obv I said change password. So when they get home I can unlock for them to access school work.

What do they need laptop for during class?

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Classwork. It's not all lecture.

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Classwork should be on paper, are they really doing this much time on screens, no wonder our test scores were dropping[/quote]

I wish! I’m a teacher but with attendance rates I have to post everything online. It is much simpler to have them do online work because I’m required to make it available for them to submit when they’re not in my room. There’s no way I could do remediation for all the skippers and make parents happy about their grades[/quote]

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