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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP sounds like the sort of parent who doesn't let their kid play video games at home. It makes sense that their kid would binge on games at school whenever he has the chance. [/quote]

NP here and [b]when I complain the school blames me for allowing video games at home[/b].  You blame parents for not allowing them.

It’s almost like what parents do at home doesn’t matter and the Chromebooks themselves are the problem.   [/quote]

? I don't believe you, because that doesn't make any sense. However, the previous point does make sense, because kids who feel deprived often go out of their way to access TV/video games when they don't get it at home.

Chromebooks ARE the problem. But this isn't likely to change any time soon, so you'd better deal with it. I provided enrichment at home, because no primary school, public or private will ever cater to precocious kids. By secondary, the whole screen issue went away because when kids are in advanced classes they do actual work, which means that when they have free time, nobody begrudges them some goofing off.
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PP here and even if you don’t believe me, that’s the meeting I had with the principal at the middle school.  She expected me to be able to get my kid to stop playing video games on his Chromebook in the school building, even though I didn’t control the device/ the WiFi and I wasn’t physically there.  Suggesting that the school shouldn’t give him a device that wasn’t safe meant that I was a rich white jerk refusing to parent her child (who has strong grades and no discipline issues).   He only plays games after he finishes his work which takes about two seconds in most classes and six seconds in the two enriched/accelerated classes offered.

We do enrich at home, actually. That’s why middle school is boring and games are more fun (although both those things would probably be true anyway).  But that doesn’t solve the fact that the middle school is an actual waste of time, and removing Chromebooks or reducing use would help at least make it more engaging.  [/quote]

https://www.scrolling2death.com/post/ai-or-opt-out-how-one-mom-took-her-kids-off-school-chromebooks[/quote]

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