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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

As I mentioned before, as a 9th grade teacher, I would love to do more paper and pencil work but these kids have zero ability to neatly and legibly write.  I have 15 year old kids who cannot write within lines or accurately space their writing to fit in the assigned spaces.  Also, they will misspell probably 50% of the words at a minimum.  When students do actually do paperwork, I have no shame in admitting the kids typically score 20-30% lower than if it were typed because If I can't read it, it's automatically wrong.  No explanation. No questions.  Just a zero for the question.

Then there is the fact that they are all too irresponsible to actually keep and maintain paper assignments.  Half of them get lost and the other half are turned in folded, ripped, and crumpled up.  I take off points for that too.

Doing the assignments on the computer removes all of the human errors and elements that these kids simply weren't taught prior to HS and I don't have the patience to teach to them now.[/quote]

I have a 9th grade kid who has dysgraphia. He has a 504 so he can type and when I asked if the school could provide OT for handwriting all the way back in elementary pre pandemic, I was told no (he’d need an IEP for that and he was not eligible because his grades and scores were high). Neighbors told me middle school was all typed/on Chromebook. Then the pandemic hit and end of 3rd plus 4th/5th were also now typed on Chromebook. Now in 9th, teachers are going back to paper because of concerns about chatgpt. But I find it really upsetting that you, as a teacher, are so unsupportive of kids whose handwriting was never addressed through school and who may not have a parent like me who sought accommodations or knew of this disability. I encourage you to give kids the benefit of the doubt. If you can’t read something, ask them to tell you what they wrote. Or refer them to the interventions/counseling team if it is obviously a roadblock that is a potential disability getting in their way. The way you speak about your students is lacking in respect and rife with judgement. I hope my kids’ teachers have more patience than you (since you say you don’t have it) and help support and mitigate any known deficits discovered. [/quote]

Sounds like you identified an issue for your child and completely ignored it on your end and instead are forcing teachers to pick up the slack for your poor parenting at home.  Writing workbooks are very cheap and easy to find.[/quote]

Do you not understand how disabilities work? Do you say the kids who need glasses should do eye exercises unless they have lazy parents? You can try to blame me, but I assure you I do far more parenting than you or anyone else does. [/quote]

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