My kids user office 365, but the iPad requirement is my but beef.
Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct
by cookie_monsta on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:45PM
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> the iPad requirement is my but beef.
I feel your pain. At an obligatory 500 bucks a pop I would have been much happier to buy them laptops.
I rent them, but unless you have other Apple products you can only setup adult accounts, so my kindergartner has to be "13".
Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct
by cookie_monsta on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:28PM
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We somehow dodged the iPads for kindergarteners bullet but that would have made my blood boil. I guess the FingerPaint app is less messy than actual fingers and actual paint.
In my less charitable moments I think teachers are getting lazier, but when I go to those parent conferences and see the teaching staff looking like rabbits in the spotlight as parents of 3rd graders grill them on the latest academic theories I realise that really they're caught in the middle of a whole set of weird expectations.
I don't know if it's a coincidence or a department policy, but Google gets them early and if you think that's bad, teachers aren't to blame - maybe schools are or possibly the education dept.
Honestly I was a little surprised that there was no discussion about it. I talk to my kids about the way the web and privacy is going and I don't expect schools to do everything but they should be a little more aware of the issues imo.