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It's tricky -- teachers are in loco parentis, so does that also apply to equipment distributed by the school system? At any rate, I know it annoys the kids, bu
by sevensor 9y ago
It's tricky -- teachers are in loco parentis, so does that also apply to equipment distributed by the school system? At any rate, I know it annoys the kids, but it gets them off to a good start circumventing technological lockdowns. So at least they're learning a valuable computer skill.
- RandallBrown 9y agoOne of my coworkers had a bit of battle going on with his son where the son would figure out how to disable/circumvent the device tracking and he would have to figure out some way of doing it. I'm not sure how it turned out, but at one point he installed an app on the phone that would let him text his son a certain message and it would silently respond with his location.
- headsoup 9y agoPerhaps he should have sat down with his son and asked what important things he was after that kept being blocked, show some understanding and then have some open discussion about the implications. Or just double-down and play 'how far will he push it...'
- megaman22 9y agoExactly. My first introduction to proxies and VPNs came about because I couldn't access the Sun JavaDocs for my AP CS class on the school internet, because Bess decided to block it for "hacking"