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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I’m old but why the heck are parents blaming the school when their kids chooses to play video games? I would come down really hard on that as a parent if I found out. It’s like saying “of course my kid is throwing paper airplanes in class all day! You gave him access to paper!”[/quote]

Yes, you must be old, as you don't understand what MCPS is like these days.  MCPS gives kids Chromebooks, but doesn't have sufficient controls on them such that kids can't put video games on them.  Parents are not in the classrooms to police this behavior at school. Teachers either don't know or don't have the bandwidth to stop the behavior when there are 30+ kids in class--it's not like the kids are playing video games loudly and disrupting class as in your paper airplane analogy where it's obvious.  And parents don't have admin rights to the Chromebooks to delete any games or block any websites that are inappropriate or may be used, only MCPS does.[/quote]

There are the excuses again. Yes I am old but I am currently employed by MCPS. And guess what: there are plenty of kids who do their work and respect their teachers and don’t google porn for God’s sake. Stop making excuses for the ones who are breaking the rules and getting away with it. “But my teacher didn’t stop me” isn’t an excuse. Don’t fool yourself that “everybody is doing it.” The kids fooling around on their Chromebooks are the same kids who disrupt the class every other way already. This is why one of the many reasons teachers are leaving. [/quote]

You may be employed by MCPS, but you clearly are not doing anything that involves being in a classroom if you are equating kids disrupting classrooms by "throwing paper airplanes" to the problems parents and teachers describing of with kids having access to Chromebooks and accessing inappropriate content.

I am disturbed that my tax dollars pay your salary, as you have an attitude that is not consistent with keeping children safe. You are blaming kids for accessing material that is not age appropriate, but which MCPS fails to block on computers that they require students to use during the school day.  [/quote]

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