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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love how mcps is immediately blamed. Hey parents- maybe you should have conversations with your kids about what is allowed and have them use their devices in the kitchen/living room where they can be monitored? Sure mcps can block sites but kids still figure out ways to access things they aren’t supposed to. So if it’s happening at home, is it really the systems fault? [/quote]

This exactly.  MCPS is a school system.  Not a prison and not a cyber security company.  They try to take reasonable measures to protect their infrastructure systems and the people utilizing them.  But on every computer system, the greatest area of weakness is the people using the system.  Fortunately/Unfortunately the key people using the systems at MCPS are kids, who view rule breaking as a challenge and means to access material that others deem inappropriate for them. Not to mention they have a hard time recon and understanding danger, particularly since most are so sheltered. The only way to solve this would be to completely lock the system down and then make every little request for sure access go through IT.  I guarantee you that would be just as painful.  It’s an imperfect system with imperfect people.  [/quote]

In which case, MCPS should be less reliant on Chromebooks.  Especially for early elementary.  They do more harm than good.  Yet, my kid spends hours a day on her Chromebook in her MCPS elementary school.  
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