Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Dr. What
Date : Thu Mar 27 2025 07:18:14

-=> 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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