Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am going to ban Macs in my own classroom next year, because kids used them as phones and mirrored their iPhones and spent the whole class texting friends. I haven’t seen it on non Mac laptops, but if it happens there I’ll make it be school computer only so I can block and monitor with lightspeed.

You can do that on a PC if you have an Android phone.

90% of my high school students have iPhones (evidence from when I make them put them in pocket charts on testing day), so the number of android users who also bring their own computer is pretty low. (Whereas every Mac user has a matching iPhone)

By the way, one ought at least look at Amazon or Walmart for pricing on new Macs. The older Mac generations (M3 or M4) often are available NEW at Amazon or Walmart at a much lower price than the latest generation from the Apple Store or apple.com.

I would not buy a refurbished Mac from anyplace other than Apple — for warranty reasons. YMMV.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am going to ban Macs in my own classroom next year, because kids used them as phones and mirrored their iPhones and spent the whole class texting friends. I haven’t seen it on non Mac laptops, but if it happens there I’ll make it be school computer only so I can block and monitor with lightspeed.

You can do that on a PC if you have an Android phone.

Yep. Probably the “I am going to ban Macs” is a fake post from the same person who made up stuff about cheating.

Anonymous wrote:I am going to ban Macs in my own classroom next year, because kids used them as phones and mirrored their iPhones and spent the whole class texting friends. I haven’t seen it on non Mac laptops, but if it happens there I’ll make it be school computer only so I can block and monitor with lightspeed.

You can do that on a PC if you have an Android phone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been told that MacBooks will no longer be allowed to use as a personal device at school next year. This is due to the ease of cheating on MacBooks.

This is just so factually untrue. Not easier to cheat on Mac than it is on Windows (or than on Linux). Totally bogus claim.

I disbelieve the post quoted above.

Yeah I'm so confused as to how one would be more able to cheat on a Macbook than anything else. The operating system and software has nothing to do with this, unless one thinks Apple Intelligence is a magic cheatcode?