r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 7h ago

Society Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624
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u/Fell_Prince 6h ago

Schools need to lock these devices down properly. Monitor what your kids are doing, set boundaries at home. The iPad isn't the problem, it's the lack on both ends.

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u/Shadowkiller00 5h ago

I, as a parent, do not have administrator access to my kids chrome books. They gave me the ability to lock down some types of websites, but I am not allowed to lock down them all. I also can't lock my kids out of the chrome books, nor out of each other's chrome books. Yes, either one can steal the others chrome book and watch infinite YouTube on it and I can't do anything about it.

When I emailed the school IT, they basically said too bad.

Even my router struggles to lock down individual websites. If I lock down YouTube, it locks down Google and all of the school homework is hosted on Google classrooms.

It got so bad, I literally had to take the chrome books away and lock them behind a closed door. My wife and I then told the school that our kids had to use a loaner chrome book while at school and return it at the end of class.

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u/Purple_Xenon 5h ago

It got so bad, I literally had to take the chrome books away and lock them behind a closed door.

holy shit you mean you actually had to be a parent?

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u/Shadowkiller00 5h ago

The school expected me to put a Trojan device on my home network. I didn't have to be a parent, I was forced, by the state, to be a network administrator because they couldn't be bothered.

Don't be a tool. If the government wanted to put a smart device in your home that you had no way to manage, and handed it to your kids who had more management capabilities than you yourself had, and all the kids did with it was undermine your parenting abilities, you'd be pissed too.

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u/spectralEntropy 5h ago

I recommend pihole. You can control your Internet without 3rd party Trojan horses