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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You also greatly overestimate the power teachers have over controlling this.  We don't have the ability to block websites.  We can send links to IT and they can eventually block them in like 7-10 days.  By then, the kids have found 3 new sites they use and you're blocking a site they won't ever access anyway.

To make it worse, the kids at my middle school realized that they could put the links inside of google doc pages and they were almost undetectable because anytime you checked a browser history it came up as Google Docs.  They also used them as live chat rooms that could be accessed by any student in the county.

As a co-teacher, I do my best when I am not leading class, I monitor lightspeed from time to time and I shut down and lock students screens whenever they are not staying on task.  I can't do this 100% of the time though.[/quote]

Is there a reason they have to have the computers open in the first place?  Is it mandated by MCPS to use a curriculum that involves computer use?  If not, can't the teacher just have them do assignments on paper? [/quote]

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