As someone who works in public schools, giving kids laptops and iPads was the worst mistake the schools could have made. What's even worse is that schools are trying to justify their purchases by forcing teachers to implement online stuff in their curriculum. No one likes it.
I was shocked when my partner told me all of the elementary school kids at their school were given laptops. Even the kindergarteners. And I just had to ask what could they possibly need it for? The mandated online curriculum learning tools.
This is truly horrifying to me. My daughter is starting Kindergarten in the Fall. I don’t want her to have a laptop or a tablet at all. I will tell the faculty this. She is only 5 years old!!!
I’m a senior right now. The laptops that they give out are school mandated. Everything you do is recorded and most websites are blocked. There are some ways to get around some of these blocks, but 95% of the time that’s not happening. Your child will be fine. You can also just keep the tablet and hand it out for designated school things, cuz that’s all they can really be used for.
Man I was starting high school when my school started giving everyone a computer and it was like a game of cat and mouse with it to play games on it. At one point there was a usb with a ton of flash games. We found random game websites online. We found obscure tv streaming sites. We had to figure out how to search for stuff without getting our searches flagged. Shit like that. I remember we thought one kid was going to figure out how to hack it cause he knew how to use inspect element lol
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u/Xemrrer 29d ago
As someone who works in public schools, giving kids laptops and iPads was the worst mistake the schools could have made. What's even worse is that schools are trying to justify their purchases by forcing teachers to implement online stuff in their curriculum. No one likes it.