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0 pointsasark6y ago0 comments

I definitely don't want my six year old to be able to use their school-provided, Internet-connected iPad any way they please, with plenty of privacy.

And yeah the actual solution is "don't fucking give a six year old an Internet-connected device of any sort, obviously, you idiots" but they do, so monitoring and blocking are absolutely necessary.

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Avamander6y ago

The original commenter talked about BYOD though, maybe school-given devices are set-up so that they don't let kids do whatever they want.

In the case of BYOD, if you're not okay with your kid having an Internet-connected device and that they're going to use it responsibly then don't give him/her one or only allow it under parental supervision. If we're carefully watching and teaching kids kids when they're handling knives or matches, why not do so with internet connected devices?

michaelt6y ago

If your child is supervised on the internet and doesn't have a tablet, and mine isn't and does, and my child showed your child stuff you disapproved of while in school, would you complain to the school?

Because some parents would.

zaarn6y ago

Then your child could simply download the content at home and show it at school without internet connection.

Parent would still complain.

The solution isn't to play helicopter-parent because other parents might helicopter even more.

Avamander6y ago

> Because some parents would.

Some parents complain about sex ed and vaccination, satisfying the lowest common denominator doesn't really work.

If some kid showed actually NSF-School images, such as nudity, to other kids and it was a first time offense a warning should suffice. If it's a repeated offense then maybe the kid needs psychological help.

Just as a hypothetical scenario, there's the possibility that a kid shows others a picture of for example Michelangelo's David (or similar art piece), do you think that kid should be punished for showing nudity to other kids?

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Avamander6y ago

The original commenter talked about BYOD though, maybe school-given devices are set-up so that they don't let kids do whatever they want.

michaelt6y ago

Because some parents would.

zaarn6y ago

Then your child could simply download the content at home and show it at school without internet connection.

Parent would still complain.

The solution isn't to play helicopter-parent because other parents might helicopter even more.

Avamander6y ago

> Because some parents would.

Some parents complain about sex ed and vaccination, satisfying the lowest common denominator doesn't really work.

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