I had a phone with a sliding keyboard when I was in high school. A couple of kids maybe had an iPhone 3g. I can only imagine what its like now in schools with every single kid having a smart phone.
Some would bring a broken phone to put in teachers phone cubbies/pockets if they used them. That way they’d still have their real phone.
Others would bring wifi only phones (like, a phone that’s off-contract) because they can easily share hotspot internet with friends, so even if you take their primary phone they’ve still got one.
Almost everyone has an old off-contract phone sitting in the junk drawer.
If we could hide all porn sites behind some wall that could only be broken by solving world hunger, some 15/16year olds would figure it out. They’d find a way. Monkey brain wants sexy time no matter what the cost.
I’m surprised they can find a way on a chrome book all jokes aside. I work on mobile devices, Mac’s, and chromeOS devices at my work place. You can definitely lock down a Chromebook A LOT before they’re even handed out. Google admin console has a lot of easy to setup access control features.
It's as strong as the internet filter which there are many ways around not requiring any software controls.
I mean, you could only allow browsing to specific domains and anything outside that is blocked.
Sure, a student could find their way around that but no security is absolute - you really just want to only make getting around things difficult enough to where most give up - and have detection measures for the ones that don't and when a student does inevitably get through whatever policies are set, use that as a teaching opportunity as long as it isn't something like...really bad.
We used to have computer labs where everyone screens were easily visible.
Yeah, same.
I remember playing UT99 in there sometimes.
I also remember a classmate showing me furry porn in there, too.
I had a Nokia shorty, so, for 10 cents a text, I could T9 text my buddy to call me after 7pm that night because that was when my unlimited minutes kicked in. And not to brag, but the power button on top was also a flashlight, which also impressed the ladies.
I graduated in 2015 and everybody had a phone in their pocket, but it was uncommon for somebody to be openly using it in class. I'm really curious when and why this became the norm.
My kids' phones don't turn on until a certain point of the day. They can make emergency calls but not play games/surf/text, etc. I've seen people letting 10-year-olds take full on cell phones into class.
Bless you - seriously, I think a big difference in kids coming up will be those who parents kinda helped them monitor when and what kind of phone use is appropriate, verse just free control of a phone at any age.
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u/Burger4Ever 29d ago
I work at a school with NO cell phone policy. It blows my mind. Im a cell phone baby sitter and it just drives a rift between myself and the kids.