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Anonymous wrote:A major focus at my middle school is only using Chromebooks when it’s totally necessary. We went back to a cart model. There are teachers who are resistant to this change, but most see the benefits for kids.

What middle school?

Kids are on chrombooks A Lot. Should be reading time instead but they do not read.

Tests are digital. They teach to test.

Pyle MS did this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?

Read a book, practice their handwriting, practice vocab or do a math worksheet. If it’s important the teacher will give a paper version of the assignment and they do that.

Sometimes, it just isn’t possible to replicate a paper version because it’s a research skill or looking a bias in media.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?

Read a book, practice their handwriting, practice vocab or do a math worksheet. If it’s important the teacher will give a paper version of the assignment and they do that.

That mom will cava in two weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid’s MS English teacher said he spent a lot more class time than he used to having kids handwrite essays because if they used Chrome books, it was hard to tell what they were plagiarizing anymore even as he ran it through plagiarism software.

You can still cheat via handwriting assignments.

In class? How does that work? Do you have a tiny mini computer under your desk that you plagiarize from?

Students cheat the same way that they did before we had computers in schools.

When I last taught HS, students glued cheat sheets onto the back of water bottle labels.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?

Ask and let us know. In middle school at least, I feel like you’d miss more than half the classes…

Last year, my middle school had a rule that if a student forgot their Chromebook or it wasn’t charged, as the teacher you had to give an alternative assignment. They were all harder than the digital assignment because it turns out that most students don’t know how to use textbooks and other print resources. They are accustomed to just using a search function to highlight key phrases, for example.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?

Opt out means nothing in MCPS.

Yeah I don’t think you can opt out if you don’t like MCPS’s selected method of teaching. It doesn’t work that way.

I agree it’s a problem but MCPS is not changing on this. Send your kid to Waldorf private schools if you want a screen free environment

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid’s MS English teacher said he spent a lot more class time than he used to having kids handwrite essays because if they used Chrome books, it was hard to tell what they were plagiarizing anymore even as he ran it through plagiarism software.

You can still cheat via handwriting assignments.

In class? How does that work? Do you have a tiny mini computer under your desk that you plagiarize from?

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?

Read a book, practice their handwriting, practice vocab or do a math worksheet. If it’s important the teacher will give a paper version of the assignment and they do that.

Anonymous wrote:My kid’s MS English teacher said he spent a lot more class time than he used to having kids handwrite essays because if they used Chrome books, it was hard to tell what they were plagiarizing anymore even as he ran it through plagiarism software.

You can still cheat via handwriting assignments.

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?

Opt out means nothing in MCPS.

My kid’s MS English teacher said he spent a lot more class time than he used to having kids handwrite essays because if they used Chrome books, it was hard to tell what they were plagiarizing anymore even as he ran it through plagiarism software.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can MCPS be so stupid as to allow students access to the Internet all day long? Good lord.

Kids playing video games aren't brawling in the classroom. It's an improvement.

It's up to parents to train your kids to be better than what MCPS expects.

Kids behave very poorly when they have access to screens. But MCPS gives kids screens and gives them access to the internet.

Yes and welcome to the 21st century.

Hopefully by the 22nd century we will finally recognize that giving kids devices designed to be addictive while they are supposed to be learning is counterproductive.

Anonymous wrote:If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?

Ask and let us know. In middle school at least, I feel like you’d miss more than half the classes…

If you opt out, what happens when there is a Chromebook based assignment? Your child grabs a notebook and heads to the library?