Anonymous
Post 11/17/2025 07:03     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:As an MCPS teacher, we are trying to hard to limit screen time. The curriculum we are given, plus the crappiest internet monitoring system (GoGuardian was LEAGUES better than Lightspeed is), doesn't give us much flexibility. Students are finding ways to get around Lightspeed. I have emailed IT so many times to block a site and they haven't blocked a single one I've suggested.


There's IT ??? How do you contact them?
Anonymous
Post 11/17/2025 00:19     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.


At home I do. I can't monitor screen time at school. The only influence parents have over screen time at school is to lobby their elected officials like this.


You can limit your child's phone and other things. It is a bit silly to complain about what others do when you are doing the same thing. I want my children ot have phones on them. I put restrictions on them. MCPS needs to block the wifi to MCPS computers only and that would help.


My kids don't have phones. I have a phone, but I'm an adult. I also drive a car and have the occasional beer, but I'm not giving either to my middle schooler.


You need to set an example. If you have one and are on it, and your kids don't, what kind of message do you think it sends them? Wait till high school. It's easy to say no phones in MS, but HS is different. Do they have iPads, tablets or their own chromebooks? Its no different.


They don't have any of those things. There's a family desktop for schoolwork and a TV.

But I still can't control what they do at school.


A tv is the same thing. Same with a computer. It makes no sense to me you wanting to dictate how others behave when you are on your electronics constantly.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 23:24     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.


At home I do. I can't monitor screen time at school. The only influence parents have over screen time at school is to lobby their elected officials like this.


You can limit your child's phone and other things. It is a bit silly to complain about what others do when you are doing the same thing. I want my children ot have phones on them. I put restrictions on them. MCPS needs to block the wifi to MCPS computers only and that would help.


My kids don't have phones. I have a phone, but I'm an adult. I also drive a car and have the occasional beer, but I'm not giving either to my middle schooler.


You need to set an example. If you have one and are on it, and your kids don't, what kind of message do you think it sends them? Wait till high school. It's easy to say no phones in MS, but HS is different. Do they have iPads, tablets or their own chromebooks? Its no different.


They don't have any of those things. There's a family desktop for schoolwork and a TV.

But I still can't control what they do at school.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 23:20     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.


At home I do. I can't monitor screen time at school. The only influence parents have over screen time at school is to lobby their elected officials like this.


You can limit your child's phone and other things. It is a bit silly to complain about what others do when you are doing the same thing. I want my children ot have phones on them. I put restrictions on them. MCPS needs to block the wifi to MCPS computers only and that would help.


My kids don't have phones. I have a phone, but I'm an adult. I also drive a car and have the occasional beer, but I'm not giving either to my middle schooler.


You need to set an example. If you have one and are on it, and your kids don't, what kind of message do you think it sends them? Wait till high school. It's easy to say no phones in MS, but HS is different. Do they have iPads, tablets or their own chromebooks? Its no different.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 23:17     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.


At home I do. I can't monitor screen time at school. The only influence parents have over screen time at school is to lobby their elected officials like this.


You can limit your child's phone and other things. It is a bit silly to complain about what others do when you are doing the same thing. I want my children ot have phones on them. I put restrictions on them. MCPS needs to block the wifi to MCPS computers only and that would help.


My kids don't have phones. I have a phone, but I'm an adult. I also drive a car and have the occasional beer, but I'm not giving either to my middle schooler.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 23:01     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.


At home I do. I can't monitor screen time at school. The only influence parents have over screen time at school is to lobby their elected officials like this.


You can limit your child's phone and other things. It is a bit silly to complain about what others do when you are doing the same thing. I want my children ot have phones on them. I put restrictions on them. MCPS needs to block the wifi to MCPS computers only and that would help.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 22:49     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.

At home I do. I can't monitor screen time at school. The only influence parents have over screen time at school is to lobby their elected officials like this.

This. My kids were sneaking videos and games on their MCPS Chromebooks for years before they had access to it in our home. Thank you to MCPS teacher for being persistent with IT and trying to limit screen time at school.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 22:04     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
As an MCPS teacher, we are trying to hard to limit screen time. The curriculum we are given, plus the crappiest internet monitoring system (GoGuardian was LEAGUES better than Lightspeed is), doesn't give us much flexibility. Students are finding ways to get around Lightspeed. I have emailed IT so many times to block a site and they haven't blocked a single one I've suggested.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 21:56     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Anonymous wrote:And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.


At home I do. I can't monitor screen time at school. The only influence parents have over screen time at school is to lobby their elected officials like this.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 21:53     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
The school district buys curriculum that is only accessible vie Chrome book. That is the protest starting point.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 21:38     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
And, yet here you are on your phone and social media. As a parent, monitor the screen time.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 20:41     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Montgomery county public schools Board of Education meeting Nov 20 THURSDAY
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 20:40     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Use petitions website whatever it is that most people use to circulate in Montgomery county
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 18:46     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Only if you circulate it on paper letterhead using the US Postal Service.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 18:44     Subject: Please sign- remove distractions and over loading on screen time
Please consider signing this petition

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