What does the principal at your school say? Also meet with the teacher leadership team.

Stop generalizing. All MCPS teachers can monitor what each student is doing on their laptop at any given time. They can then block any site they choose remotely. My 15 year old daughter has seen it in action this year, and last year, and as far back as she can remember.

At Westland and BCC, teachers enforce that pretty systematically. Sometimes when the teacher is distracted, a kid gets through, but it's not at all the free-for-all you're claiming it is.

If your kid is telling you that everyone is watching whatever they want, take it with a grain of salt: perhaps that teacher allows it when kids finish their work. Perhaps that teacher doesn't know how to use the blocking software, or doesn't care.

My daughter likes to access the Sora library on her chromebook to read in class, and usually teachers let her. Sometimes they block it when they want everyone to pay attention to an announcement.

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking of testifying at BOE and showing everyone the work around the kids all know for YouTube.

Will they let me present a MCPS computer?

A screen recording through video testimony as you walk through some of the workarounds would be the best way to show that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most MCPS kids know how to access YouTube and watch anything they want. Teachers have few resources to monitor and stop them.

MCPS pretends to have blocked it, but the kids all know the simple work around.

Is anyone interested in pushing MCPS / BOE to get google to actually block YouTube?

Note - there is plenty of adult content etc they can access as soon as they are old enough to be curious.

Once again MCPS pretends one thing ( to block YouTube) and completely fails on the execution.

If anyone knows of how to get resources to sue MCPS, please let us al know.

This is ruining kids chance for an education!

Is your kid smart enough to hide it or can you see their YouTube viewing in their browser story?

If you can't stop your kid from youtubing when you aren't there, and get a 504 or IEP for ADHD, so your child is not allowed to get a Chromebook in school.

MCPS used to have a Chromebook website monitoring system, but they canceled it, because they hate teachers.

They hate teachers and don’t want kids to learn. Only conclusion you can rationally make!

This a bureaucracy designed to feed itself and actually do what it was designed for! Insane.

Anonymous wrote:Most MCPS kids know how to access YouTube and watch anything they want. Teachers have few resources to monitor and stop them.

MCPS pretends to have blocked it, but the kids all know the simple work around.

Is anyone interested in pushing MCPS / BOE to get google to actually block YouTube?

Note - there is plenty of adult content etc they can access as soon as they are old enough to be curious.

Once again MCPS pretends one thing ( to block YouTube) and completely fails on the execution.

If anyone knows of how to get resources to sue MCPS, please let us al know.

This is ruining kids chance for an education!

Is your kid smart enough to hide it or can you see their YouTube viewing in their browser story?

If you can't stop your kid from youtubing when you aren't there, and get a 504 or IEP for ADHD, so your child is not allowed to get a Chromebook in school.

MCPS used to have a Chromebook website monitoring system, but they canceled it, because they hate teachers.

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking of testifying at BOE and showing everyone the work around the kids all know for YouTube.

Will they let me present a MCPS computer?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/about/contact/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most MCPS kids know how to access YouTube and watch anything they want. Teachers have few resources to monitor and stop them.

MCPS pretends to have blocked it, but the kids all know the simple work around.

Is anyone interested in pushing MCPS / BOE to get google to actually block YouTube?

Note - there is plenty of adult content etc they can access as soon as they are old enough to be curious.

Once again MCPS pretends one thing ( to block YouTube) and completely fails on the execution.

If anyone knows of how to get resources to sue MCPS, please let us al know.

This is ruining kids chance for an education!

Sue MCPS because they won’t run around trying to deflect every new way kids find to violate the blocks, rules, and instead pay attention?

Yeah it's the 11 yr old's responsibility not to eat the crack that the schools hand out every day.

I am thinking of testifying at BOE and showing everyone the work around the kids all know for YouTube.

Will they let me present a MCPS computer?

I don't know if you're a parent or a teacher, but I think you need to gather evidence of what you're saying and make it public via a BOE testimony.

Anonymous wrote:Most MCPS kids know how to access YouTube and watch anything they want. Teachers have few resources to monitor and stop them.

MCPS pretends to have blocked it, but the kids all know the simple work around.

Is anyone interested in pushing MCPS / BOE to get google to actually block YouTube?

Note - there is plenty of adult content etc they can access as soon as they are old enough to be curious.

Once again MCPS pretends one thing ( to block YouTube) and completely fails on the execution.

If anyone knows of how to get resources to sue MCPS, please let us al know.

This is ruining kids chance for an education!

Sue MCPS because they won’t run around trying to deflect every new way kids find to violate the blocks, rules, and instead pay attention?

The 1-to-1 device experiment has been a failure. Kids are distracted, not learning, playing games on their devices, watching movies and porn, and texting each other on these devices. You cannot take away phones at school when kids simply replace them with their school-issued laptops.

Kids learn better with pencil and paper. We all do.

The only way is to take the computers away. Back to paper and books and notepads etc. computers just for testing.
Or 0 tolerance policy. Anyone's machine caught with you tube during class gets a 0 for the day.

Anonymous wrote:Unless it is by design.

This did occur to me- since kids quietly watching YouTube aren’t bothering anyone. Just quietly wasting their chance at an education.

Unless it is by design.

Most MCPS kids know how to access YouTube and watch anything they want. Teachers have few resources to monitor and stop them.

MCPS pretends to have blocked it, but the kids all know the simple work around.

Is anyone interested in pushing MCPS / BOE to get google to actually block YouTube?

Note - there is plenty of adult content etc they can access as soon as they are old enough to be curious.

Once again MCPS pretends one thing ( to block YouTube) and completely fails on the execution.

If anyone knows of how to get resources to sue MCPS, please let us al know.

This is ruining kids chance for an education!