School gave us chromeboks, they are worthless

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Oh no, you can't browse reddit or facebook on a tool that was given to you by your school for the purposes of doing homework on. How can the students possibly do their research papers without the aid of reddit or facebook?

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The only shame is YouTube, as there are lots of informational channels on it. But of course, I'm sure it'll be less than 10% of the students upset about not being able to use YouTube that are upset because they can't use it for that specific reason.
 
dskillzhtown said:
Chromebooks are just fine for surfing the web, creating documents, etc. what a student would do for homework. Why would you need to give students some high-powered machine for that?
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I don't like the idea of needing to be connected to a network in order to retrieve my work. You don't need to give a student a 'high-powered machine', but one with a built in HDD (for user storage, not just the OS) would be nice.
 
Ahhh, I know that pain. My job has a lot of sites like reddit blocked. It's like they want me to do work or something.

But they haven't blocked GAF! Woooo!
 
Cover the camera. I'm sure you had thought of that yourself before you posted.

Monitoring your emails seems a bit intrusive but they aren't going into every ones email every night to see what they're doing unless of course

  1. You are being highly disruptive and causing a scene within the school.
  2. Mr. Finkle is just checking in on Krystal to make sure she is doing her, um, homework.
 
John Kowalski said:
Remote camera monitoring? Fuckin hell. Don't use that shit.
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How did he find this out? Is it just a rumor? Besides, you're in a school, you should expect for your moves to be tracked.

As for the blocking and monitoring, my highschool had a system where librarians could watch what you're doing on the computer and control the mouse to close what you're doing.

I don't mind the watching, but closing out what a student is doing because they don't like it is rude.
 
So, you're in high school. So the taxes you don't pay were raised to give you a free laptop and you're incensed that this free thing you don't pay for doesn't let you browse reddit? You're upset because government money is being spent, and they've put efforts in place to make sure you're not wasting that by surfing twitter all day. If you want to browse reddit, get your own damn laptop. This one is for school. Your textbooks don't browse reddit either, but you're not throwing a fit about that. Get over yourself.

Also, I absolutely do not believe they can look through your camera whenever they want.
 
Considering the school raised taxs significantly to provide the "free" (thus not free) computer, I think his annoyance at the restrictions is pretty valid.
 
Sucks OP, at that point I'd probably just do homework on a home computer
or figure out how they're monitoring/controlling the computer and try to disable it.
 
M52B28 said:
How did he find this out? Is it just a rumor? Besides, you're in a school, you should expect for your moves to be tracked.

As for the blocking and monitoring, my highschool had a system where librarians could watch what you're doing on the computer and control the mouse to close what you're doing.

I don't mind the watching, but closing out what a student is doing because they don't like it is rude.
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They need to be public about that stuff, if they're doing it without the student's knowledge they can get fucked five ways to hell in court.
 
Arthr2ShdsJcksn said:
I don't like the idea of needing to be connected to a network in order to retrieve my work. You don't need to give a student a 'high-powered machine', but one with a built in HDD (for user storage, not just the OS) would be nice.
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You can work offline and when back online the machine will sync the files. You can have both offline and online copies of the file. Given we are talking about school work and documents, I would think the on-board storage is sufficient for a school year.
 
AndyD said:
I would say the privacy concerns are very legitimate, especially if ti involves underage children (and OP is not in college).

That said restrictions seem reasonable considering it's a homework device. OP has a misleading thread title.
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Yeah, I agree with you. School chromebook or not, what the OP says about being snooped on by his school via the webcam is definitely an invasion of privacy.
 
okay so my school just gave all the students in our highschool chromebooks for "free"
Okay. So my school just gave all the students in our high school Chromebooks for free.

(raised our taxes by a significant sum this year) but i would not have an issue with this if
They raised our taxes by a significant sum this year but I would not have an issue with this if

there where not so many restrictions to them. you can not access reddit youtube Facebook
there were not so many restrictions to them. You can not access reddit, youtube, Facebook

twitter even when your not at school. also the school reserves the right to snoop on what
or twitter even when you're not at school. Also the school reserves the right to snoop on what


you are doing on it even if you are at home and that they reserve the right to monitor you
you are doing on it even if you are at home and they reserve the right to monitor you

remotely through the camera on the pc and they can snoop on your private emails. this all
remotely through the camera on the pc and they can snoop on your private emails. This all


just seems ridiculous. sorry for the rage post
just seems ridiculous. Sorry for the rage post.

I've tried not to change the content but you need to change schools OP.
 
dskillzhtown said:
You can work offline and when back online the machine will sync the files. You can have both offline and online copies of the file. Given we are talking about school work and documents, I would think the on-board storage is sufficient for a school year.
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Yeah, maybe I need to be a little better informed about how Chromebooks work. Maybe they aren't so bad after all.
 
When I was in school all we got was paper and pencils.

And I fought off many a wolf getting to and from school in winter with those pencils.
 
The remote monitoring of emails/webcam is ludicrous and should be illegal.

cyberheater said:
okay so my school just gave all the students in our highschool chromebooks for "free"
Okay. So my school just gave all the students in our high school Chromebooks for free.

(raised our taxes by a significant sum this year) but i would not have an issue with this if
They raised our taxes by a significant sum this year but I would not have an issue with this if

there where not so many restrictions to them. you can not access reddit youtube Facebook
there were not so many restrictions to them. You can not access reddit, youtube, Facebook

twitter even when your not at school. also the school reserves the right to snoop on what
or twitter even when you're not at school. Also the school reserves the right to snoop on what


you are doing on it even if you are at home and that they reserve the right to monitor you
you are doing on it even if you are at home and they reserve the right to monitor you

remotely through the camera on the pc and they can snoop on your private emails. this all
remotely through the camera on the pc and they can snoop on your private emails. This all


just seems ridiculous. sorry for the rage post
just seems ridiculous. Sorry for the rage post.

I've tried not to change the content but you need to change schools OP.
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Come on
 
EskimoJoe said:
So, you're in high school. So the taxes you don't pay were raised to give you a free laptop and you're incensed that this free thing you don't pay for doesn't let you browse reddit? You're upset because government money is being spent, and they've put efforts in place to make sure you're not wasting that by surfing twitter all day. If you want to browse reddit, get your own damn laptop. This one is for school. Your textbooks don't browse reddit either, but you're not throwing a fit about that. Get over yourself.

Also, I absolutely do not believe they can look through your camera whenever they want.
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So much pure truth in this post..........
 
You better get used to it OP. If you get a laptop from work in the future it will probably be the same deal. Assume any IT equipment you don't purchase yourself isn't really private.
 
Generalpsyduck said:
okay so my school just gave all the students in our highschool chromebooks for "free" (raised our taxes by a significant sum this year) but i would not have an issue with this if there where not so many restrictions to them. you can not access reddit youtube facebook twitter even when your not at school. also the school reserves the right to snoop on what you are doing on it even if you are at home and that they reserve the right to monitor you remotely through the camera on the pc and they can snoop on your private emails. this all just seems ridiculous. sorry for the rage post
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Are they yours to keep or do you return them at the end of the school year?

If they are still owned by the school they can do whatever they want in terms of monitoring. However, using the camera to monitor sounds creepy. They should refrain from doing that.
 
Dennis said:
When I was in school all we got was paper and pencils.

And I fought off many a wolf getting to and from school in winter with those pencils.
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Yeah, but I bet that paper at least allowed you to browse tumblr when you were at home! Nowadays, kids don't even get that luxury!
 
You have your own PC/tablet/phone for all your personal shit. I'd have loved to be given a small laptop for school work. Would make things much easier as I always preferred typing, my hand writing was a mess and my wrist always ached after doing homework. Plus, if you can use them in class to take notes and do work that's be fantastic.

There are concerns if it blocks valid educational content. Like if there was an interesting, educational post or AMA on reddit that was relevant to a subject, or if there was a science video on youtube that explained something in an easy to understand and entertaining manner.
 
Generalpsyduck said:
okay so my school just gave all the students in our highschool chromebooks for "free" (raised our taxes by a significant sum this year) but i would not have an issue with this if there where not so many restrictions to them. you can not access reddit youtube facebook twitter even when your not at school. also the school reserves the right to snoop on what you are doing on it even if you are at home and that they reserve the right to monitor you remotely through the camera on the pc and they can snoop on your private emails. this all just seems ridiculous. sorry for the rage post
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The fact that they disclosed they may do this could be an important factual distinction (I don't have time to look at the actual case law), but this should be relevant to both you and your parents' interests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District
 
i remember typing my first computer assignment on a fucking webtv.

i wrote it out on my personal pokemon page and had to modify the text just to make sure when i hit the print-page option it would align the text with the paper.

nevermind my first actual typed assignment was on an electronic typewriter.

OP, realize that you have been given a tool that is explicitly for a purpose. be more humble for the fact you have this resource available to you, when many others do not.
 
I'm actually curious when OPs school year starts. Because its 1:15 on a Wednesday afternoon on the east coast. Which we like to call "school hours."
 
As a person from a third world country where 80% of my country can't read... This is a pretty disgusting thread. The chromebook is very valuable if you have a decent internet connection... Using the chromebook and google drive Along with google docs and google spreadsheets is something i wish we could bring to my country for educational purposes.
 
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