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   Message 955 of 2,445   
   Dr. What to Aaron Thomas   
   Re: Screens Distract Stud   
   27 Mar 25 07:18:14   
   
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   -=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Powell <=-   
      
    AT> I like this article. My kid's highschool has gone 100% Chromebook,   
    AT> meaning there are no more textbooks. I don't like it. It's bad for   
    AT> their eyes,   
      
   Certainly.  But schools don't care about what's good for students anymore.   
      
    AT> it's a bad idea to send kids walking the streets with   
    AT> millions of dollars worth of computers,   
      
   Chromebooks are cheap and not in demand.  They aren't worth stealing.   
      
    AT> it's bad that schools are making big deals with big tech companies,   
      
   Most certainly.  But it's really the Left making deals with the Left.  It's all   
   part of the same plan.   
      
    AT> it's more convenient to read textbooks,   
      
   Yup.  But it's harder to manipulate textbooks.   
      
    AT> there's password issues,   
      
   Minor at best.   
      
    AT> there's privacy concerns   
      
   Most certainly.   
      
   A number of years ago, there was in incident where students had school-owned   
   laptops.  One day, a teacher harassed a student for taking drugs while   
   studying.  The student was confused because he didn't do drugs.  Then he   
   realized he was eating Good N' Plenty the night before.   
      
   But then he asked "How does my teacher know what I was doing last night?"   
      
   And that opened a huge can of worms for the school.  The school had remote   
   admin access to the laptop, including the camera.  There were more than a few   
   teachers in posession of pictures of students in various forms of undress.  Did   
   I mention that all those students were underage?   
      
      
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