Anonymous wrote:My Dell laptop was crap. I traveled throughout the day. I taught in 4 classrooms. No matter the settings, if I closed the lid, it would turn off. It would take a couple of minutes to get it back on.

This is a common issue with MCPS Dells that my friends in the private sector aren’t having with theirs.

Anonymous wrote:I had no trouble setting up my wife’s Dell work laptop to stay on, as we often used it closed, with the Dell Hub monitor and the boxlight. You do have to have some familiarity with the bios settings, or else ask your ITSS to do that for you.

But beyond that I don’t think I had any issues connecting to the boxlight, as I traveled between classrooms. But shutting the lid in between them and logging back in took seconds to do.

Yes, thanks for telling me that it was an easy fix. It wasn't I did all of the things the ITSS person told me. He would do all of the things to get to not shut down when the lid was closed. It never worked.

I had no trouble setting up my wife’s Dell work laptop to stay on, as we often used it closed, with the Dell Hub monitor and the boxlight. You do have to have some familiarity with the bios settings, or else ask your ITSS to do that for you.

But beyond that I don’t think I had any issues connecting to the boxlight, as I traveled between classrooms. But shutting the lid in between them and logging back in took seconds to do.

My Dell laptop was crap. I traveled throughout the day. I taught in 4 classrooms. No matter the settings, if I closed the lid, it would turn off. It would take a couple of minutes to get it back on.

Yes, MCPS has ITSSs in every school, and they tackle any technology issues. So this is why I called it a nothing burger. There’s just nothing here and it’s unclear to me why it was even brought up.

I teach with PGCPS. Does MCPS not have a tech department that handles the laptops? We have two tech departments that maintains the teachers laptops. We also get to choose between a dell or a MacBook Air. Zero issues. If anything pops up, we take it in to get serviced. Laptops are a must for testing, grades, accessing the curriculum, communication, etc. It goes beyond YouTube videos… but agree, not sure what DCUM has to do with this issue

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Anonymous wrote:My kid told me their teacher told the.class not to tell their parents they were showing YouTube videos at school.

Maybe MCPS should make it possible to not need devices.

Please report this to something beyond dcurbanmom.

Oh geez y’all are wild!!

What’s wrong with YouTube videos? They aren’t showing Mr. Beast! There are many many videos on YouTube already approved to be watched in school.

Anonymous wrote:You are funny. Use your own device.

Hell no, if a parent does a FERPA request, they will take the laptop. No way now how will they have access to my own information.

Plus, teachers aren’t in the business of donating their money to their employer.

Crazy stuff.