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Looked through the rest of that topic Hermit linked, he was in there having a meltdown over people being skeptical of chiropractors and multiple people including me pointed it out. Was I a little spicy? Definitely! But like...get over it? That shit was two years ago!

I do feel somewhat honored that my posts in that topic stuck with him so hard though!
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ForsakenHermit posted...
If you want him to stop posting you need to stop stirring the pot. Harassing everyone you disagree with isn't the virtue signal you think it is.

You're right but now they're gonna say you're defending him/agree with him for being correct.

You have to realize they arent even trying to virtue signal at this point this is literally how they entertain themselves.
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shockthemonkey posted...
Honestly dude no one cares, its got no relevance to this topic, and if he wants to cry about a 2 year old topic then just let him.

Oh yeah it's just genuinely really funny that he remembers that.
Murphiroth posted...
LMAO.

Oh no I said you make a lot of shitty posts in a thread where multiple other people are pointing out the same thing and apparently lived rent free in your head for two years due to that.

So that's two interactions, maybe if you keep searching you can find more! For what it's worth I'm sorry if that one-off mostly joking remark bothered you that much.
Apology accepted

As someone who has had meltdowns here I can tell you that snarky comments like that when someone is enraged is only going to fuel the flames and keep them going until they get warned/suspended. And if that's the end goal it's not becoming nor is it a flex.

I'm not speaking about 0K_Then and this topic in particular since the mods pulled his plug and that's now a settled issue. If you have to rebuke a shitposter say your piece and just move on. If a shitposter needs to have the last word let them and if your rebuke of them is true it'll stand by itself. Snarky dogpiling afterwards is only gonna drive them further and further into rage.
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shockthemonkey posted...
Hes suspended

ForsakenHermit posted...
The best reaction to a dumpster fire is to ignore it and let it burn itself out.
Looks like our reaction worked a lot better.
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Poor kid. It's always heartrending whenever I see kids that young even mention suicide, let alone actually carry it out.
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DrizztLink posted...
Looks like our reaction worked a lot better.

ForsakenHermit posted...
As someone who has had meltdowns here I can tell you that snarky comments like that when someone is enraged is only going to fuel the flames and keep them going until they get warned/suspended. And if that's the end goal it's not becoming nor is it a flex.


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DrizztLink posted...
Looks like our reaction worked a lot better.

By hijacking a topic about a heartbreaking story just to recycle the same memes and insults? Hes gone and still getting talked about.
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DrizztLink posted...
Looks like our reaction worked a lot better.

It doesn't. I know you'll say I'm being sanctimonious, but your reaction distracts further from the topic. If someone is being disruptive, meeting them at their level isn't any better.
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CRON posted...
Zero tolerance bullying policies have been complete horse shit since their inception. Absolute shame what happened to this kid.

Also doesn't help that kids have seemingly forgotten how to act like non-suffering little shits.
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Zero tolerance is mostly an excuse to stop thinking and half the time it doesn't even come close to being what it says. When I was in middle school it was just an excuse the principal had to condemn aggression but not the roots of bullying which is verbal shame.
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DrizztLink posted...
I'll bring along my smallest violin for all three of you.

Fine, but whatever you play better be entertaining
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shockthemonkey posted...
The lack of funding and the culture around what schools can do is so fucked.
The problem has nothing to do with schools lacking resources or funding and everything to do with schools being terrified of liability and litigation while non-tenured staff are being paid so increasingly little that they have no reason to care about their job.

My mother's been working in a well-funded district for years where you'd expect there to be no problems, yet they're facing the same issues as schools nationwide. I consistently hear the most insane stories you can imagine. Students are borderline illiterate, can't communicate, and are outrageously disrespectful towards their peers and staff alike. Teachers have to walk on eggshells during conferences or behavioral meetings because parents lose their minds at the simple thought of their children not being viewed as anything other than a well-behaved genius.
Thanks for reading!
Miquella posted...
It doesn't. I know you'll say I'm being sanctimonious, but your reaction distracts further from the topic. If someone is being disruptive, meeting them at their level isn't any better.

isn't this your first post in the topic?
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CRON posted...
The problem has nothing to do with schools lacking resources or funding and everything to do with schools being terrified of liability and litigation while non-tenured staff are being paid so increasingly little that they have no reason to care about their job.

My mother's been working in a well-funded district for years where you'd expect there to be no problems, yet they're facing the same issues as schools nationwide. I consistently hear the most insane stories you can imagine. Students are borderline illiterate, can't communicate, and are outrageously disrespectful towards their peers and staff alike. Teachers have to walk on eggshells during conferences or behavioral meetings because parents lose their minds at the simple thought of their children not being viewed as anything other than a well-behaved genius.
If liability is the big concern then they shouldn't allow bullying to the point of suicide. Now they all deserve to be sued into the fucking ground and they deserve cancelation far more than a celebrity who posts racist shit on Twitter.

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thronedfire2 posted...
isn't this your first post in the topic?

Yes, but I don't always participate in topics. A lot of times I just read and follow along with discussions. It's also why I don't like trolls, because they can derail discussion and sour a good topic. But I will say I love following civil debates (those are the best topics), although most discussions don't remain civil lol.
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shockthemonkey posted...
You say lack of funding doesnt have anything to do with it then immediately point out that teachers dont get paid enough? I dont get it.
On second thought that did come off weird. Just using my mother's job as an example, she's in a well-funded district that's never been understaffed and has more than enough resources available at a moment's notice. For underfunded schools the lack of resources and competent/motivated staff is clearly a huge issue, but from what I hear on a consistent basis, the larger elephant in the room seems to be a combination of younger people becoming progressively dumber, less social, and more cruel while their parents seem to turn a blind eye and become combatitive whenever the finger is pointed at them.
Thanks for reading!
The problem has nothing to do with schools lacking resources or funding and everything to do with schools being terrified of liability and litigation while non-tenured staff are being paid so increasingly little that they have no reason to care about their job.

My mother's been working in a well-funded district for years where you'd expect there to be no problems, yet they're facing the same issues as schools nationwide. I consistently hear the most insane stories you can imagine. Students are borderline illiterate, can't communicate, and are outrageously disrespectful towards their peers and staff alike. Teachers have to walk on eggshells during conferences or behavioral meetings because parents lose their minds at the simple thought of their children not being viewed as anything other than a well-behaved genius.

I been a substitute teacher since 2017 and I seen a lot. There are two kinds of bully's...at least in the most basic level, those who hurt others because they are hurt, and those who think they can do whatever they want, because there parents make them feel that way.

These days parents give hell for any single thing, these days kids can break things and not be punished out of fear of the parents...these days there has to be direct violence and threats before ANY thing is done and sometimes that's STILL not enough because they are so afraid of being sued.

I saw one kid outright brag because his dad was a cop and his mom was a lawyer that he could speed through town and just flash a badge and he would not be charged.

There are many problems but a big problem is that so many parents outright think them and there kids are superior to everyone around them. When so many parents feel kids don't have to be held accountable for there grades or behavior school becomes just a day care where the elite come first, the others dead last.
Necronmon posted...
I been a substitute teacher since 2017 and I seen a lot. There are two kinds of bully's...at least in the most basic level, those who hurt others because they are hurt, and those who think they can do whatever they want, because there parents make them feel that way.

These days parents give hell for any single thing, these days kids can break things and not be punished out of fear of the parents...these days there has to be direct violence and threats before ANY thing is done and sometimes that's STILL not enough because they are so afraid of being sued.

I saw one kid outright brag because his dad was a cop and his mom was a lawyer that he could speed through town and just flash a badge and he would not be charged.

There are many problems but a big problem is that so many parents outright think them and there kids are superior to everyone around them.
At a certain point the latter types of bullies need to be thrown in juvie.
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Hope his bullies grow up to have the shittiest lives possible.
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ImAMarvel posted...
But people here said that bullying wasn't a big deal
Who said this?
Hypnospace posted...
This story is tragic, and it's pretty scary how schools just don't seem to give a fuck to do literally anything unless the bully victim fights back.

I distinctly remember an assembly about bullying in my high school, where the Vice Principal told us the proper way to handle an attack was to, and I'm not kidding;

Curl up into the fetal position and call out for help.

This is the level of zero tolerance high school can produce.
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What a horrible story, my deepest condolences to his friends and families and I wish the worst in life for his bullies. It would take a lot of redemption to come back from bullying someone into killing themselves, so much so that I doubt many people could ever achieve it because that life you stole is never coming back. It's not enough for them to merely feel remorse over it when they grow up, they would need to put time and effort into actually atoning and trying to prevent someone else from walking down the same path they did.

As for that poster who is no suspended and hopefully gone from this board, wtf at them. Glad they're gone.
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Hypnospace posted...
There were definitely a group of neanderthals that claimed it "built character"
Was an unofficial policy at the school I went to. The headmaster had said in a staff meeting a bit of bastardisation is good for the boys
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Rotterdammerung posted...
Was an unofficial policy at the school I went to. The headmaster had said in a staff meeting a bit of bastardisation is good for the boys
Sounds like your headmaster was a real piece of shit.
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The problem nowadays is that schools don't actually discipline awful students.

Teachers don't actually have the power to actually discipline students in a meaningful way. The most a teacher can do is write it up to the administration, and then the administration will do one of two things:

-Cave when the bully's parents call and threaten to sue the school
-Blame it on the teacher for not being able to handle the bully (with what consequence?) and then take administrative action against the teacher

Kids who are assholes have all the power because school administrations rarely stand up to those dipshit kids, and the consequence is that kids who get picked on can't really be helped in any way.
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That kid reminds me of myself. Man bullying is horrible

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SSj4Wingzero posted...
The problem nowadays is that schools don't actually discipline awful students.

Teachers don't actually have the power to actually discipline students in a meaningful way. The most a teacher can do is write it up to the administration, and then the administration will do one of two things:

-Cave when the bully's parents call and threaten to sue the school
-Blame it on the teacher for not being able to handle the bully (with what consequence?) and then take administrative action against the teacher

Kids who are assholes have all the power because school administrations rarely stand up to those dipshit kids, and the consequence is that kids who get picked on can't really be helped in any way.
Teachers should definitely be given more power to intervene in these shitty circumstances. I cant say that, in that position, I would be able to ignore such behavior. Teachers arent cut off from telling other teachers that one shitty kid and his friends are bullying another kid who did nothing to them. There are an embarrassing amount of teachers who dont care about the kids they are supposed to be teaching.
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CRON posted...
My mother's been working in a well-funded district for years where you'd expect there to be no problems, yet they're facing the same issues as schools nationwide. I consistently hear the most insane stories you can imagine. Students are borderline illiterate, can't communicate, and are outrageously disrespectful towards their peers and staff alike. Teachers have to walk on eggshells during conferences or behavioral meetings because parents lose their minds at the simple thought of their children not being viewed as anything other than a well-behaved genius.

I work in one of these school districts as well, and I deal with this bullshit everyday. The worst of the worst students get away with damn near *everything*, and there are no actual consequences because shitty kids usually have shitty parents who are are litigious people who will sue the school and the school will cave.

Well, no, they don't cave. They instead push it back on the teacher and blame the teacher for not handling it.

As to kids thinking they're geniuses...grade inflation is a real thing. Teachers nationwide rarely give out grades lower than C's because parents will bitch to the administrators and the administrators blame the teachers for "not doing enough to support the student", which is why there is a nationwide phenomenon called "B-flation", which is basically "We give you a B so that you leave us alone."

Test scores nationwide are dismal because students don't actually *know* anything, and because teachers are overworked and tired of not having support, most teachers just inflate grades to that parents and administrators leave them alone. You can read an article about it here. The article blames schools and teachers, but conveniently leaves out the fact that the main reason schools and teachers inflate grades is because parents are assholes.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/us/child-progress-beyond-grades/index.html

Necronmon posted...
I been a substitute teacher since 2017 and I seen a lot. There are two kinds of bully's...at least in the most basic level, those who hurt others because they are hurt, and those who think they can do whatever they want, because there parents make them feel that way.

These days parents give hell for any single thing, these days kids can break things and not be punished out of fear of the parents...these days there has to be direct violence and threats before ANY thing is done and sometimes that's STILL not enough because they are so afraid of being sued.

I saw one kid outright brag because his dad was a cop and his mom was a lawyer that he could speed through town and just flash a badge and he would not be charged.

There are many problems but a big problem is that so many parents outright think them and there kids are superior to everyone around them. When so many parents feel kids don't have to be held accountable for there grades or behavior school becomes just a day care where the elite come first, the others dead last.

As a teacher, you have my gratitude, respect, and if I had the money, I'd donate you some of my salary. You don't get thanked enough for what you do, and it is a shame that most schools don't budget for substitutes. Then they panic when they can't find people to cover classes.

Everything you say is 100% on point. School is suppose to *fix* the problems with society. Instead, it exacerbates them - shitty entitled kids go through school getting whatever they want, and they do, and they grow up to be assholes. It starts early.
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LonelyStoner posted...
Teachers should definitely be given more power to intervene in these shitty circumstances. I cant say that, in that position, I would be able to ignore such behavior. Teachers arent cut off from telling other teachers that one shitty kid and his friends are bullying another kid who did nothing to them. There are an embarrassing amount of teachers who dont care about the kids they are supposed to be teaching.

Most teachers care. It's just...what can you do?

A group of kids is bullying a student. You can report it to the administration, but what will the administration do? Nothing, probably. Odds are, the administration will blame the teacher for not being able to control the bullies. The administration is scared to death of the parents of the bullies, and that's the truth.

And as a teacher, if you know that reporting something will just result in you (i.e. the teacher doing their job!) having a target on your back for daring to report something and giving more work to the administration, then, well, sometimes you devolve into self-preservation and keep your mouth shut. School administrations spend the majority of their time worried about keeping *that parent* happy.
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Necronmon posted...
I been a substitute teacher since 2017 and I seen a lot. There are two kinds of bully's...at least in the most basic level, those who hurt others because they are hurt, and those who think they can do whatever they want, because there parents make them feel that way.

These days parents give hell for any single thing, these days kids can break things and not be punished out of fear of the parents...these days there has to be direct violence and threats before ANY thing is done and sometimes that's STILL not enough because they are so afraid of being sued.

I saw one kid outright brag because his dad was a cop and his mom was a lawyer that he could speed through town and just flash a badge and he would not be charged.

There are many problems but a big problem is that so many parents outright think them and there kids are superior to everyone around them. When so many parents feel kids don't have to be held accountable for there grades or behavior school becomes just a day care where the elite come first, the others dead last.
I went to school with one kid like that. He had a little man complex on account of being roughly 55. He would try to argue and fight with everyone because he was insecure and his parents were rich. He picked the wrong fight with another kid on our bus and the other guy broke the bus window with the little mans head.

His parents tried to sue, but the guy who defended himself also had a really good family lawyer and the bully got shut right tf down. Three weeks later the bully moved schools.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have ties to a good lawyer, but god it was satisfying to see that rich prick and his family crumble.
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SSj4Wingzero posted...
Most teachers care. It's just...what can you do?

A group of kids is bullying a student. You can report it to the administration, but what will the administration do? Nothing, probably. Odds are, the administration will blame the teacher for not being able to control the bullies. The administration is scared to death of the parents of the bullies, and that's the truth.

And as a teacher, if you know that reporting something will just result in you (i.e. the teacher doing their job!) having a target on your back for daring to report something and giving more work to the administration, then, well, sometimes you devolve into self-preservation and keep your mouth shut. School administrations spend the majority of their time worried about keeping *that parent* happy.
Its really no wonder fewer and fewer people are going for teaching jobs. Fuck the parents. They taught the bully how to bully and should be held accountable instead of the administration rolling over and showing their bellies.
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RIP

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FLAMING_EVIL_HOMER posted...
RIP

Hoping to raise my kids right and also hoping they won't be bullied, but only time will tell. They are still 1 and 2 so got a bit to go.
Yeah, its a concern as a parent.

We were worried our little dude was going to get bullied or ostracised as he can be a bit idiosyncratic, but hes also an incredibly gentle, sensitive kid.

Instead, within a week he set himself up as a mini cult leader of kindergarten and the other kids would be excited for when he got there in the morning to tell them what games theyd play before the bell went.

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As a teacher, you have my gratitude, respect, and if I had the money, I'd donate you some of my salary. You don't get thanked enough for what you do, and it is a shame that most schools don't budget for substitutes. Then they panic when they can't find people to cover classes.

Everything you say is 100% on point. School is suppose to *fix* the problems with society. Instead, it exacerbates them - s***ty entitled kids go through school getting whatever they want, and they do, and they grow up to be a******s. It starts early.

Thanks, sometimes I do feel disposable. There were a few times when I thought I could get " promoted" into a aide, but every time I was subbing for more then a month they switched me out or broke the role into swifts so no one worked full time, they really try to reduced giving anyone health care.

Still, its not a dream job but, at the very least I like that as a sub its flexible and somehow still make as much as a abject college teacher so, I'll take this over a supermarket job.

But yah, a lot of this is parts of the larger problem...Trump's election as president as solidified that America seems to have embraced that its a culture of jerks and jerks are in charge, at least it feels that way at times.
Damn, that sucks.

I wonder how much one on one time him and his dad had. He's wearing a BPS sweater in that pic, I wonder if it's just what he had to wear at the time or if him and his dad went fishing a lot? I ask because my dad taking me fishing often when I was younger actually helped me get through a lot of things. I wonder if the kid had any support systems in his life.
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I was bullied as a kid, and the only advice i got was "just ignore them, and they will get bored. They just want to get a reaction, so don't do anything"

That doesn't work for shit, all they see from that is an easy target.
The only response bullies understand is extreme violence
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ROBANN_88 posted...
I was bullied as a kid, and the only advice i got was "just ignore them, and they will get bored. They just want to get a reaction, so don't do anything"

That doesn't work for shit, all they see from that is an easy target.
The only response bullies understand is extreme violence
Christ, even our middle school guidance counselor pointed out that ignoring bullies didn't work and she was scum that did a shit job protecting her students once she decided to retire.
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Most teachers do care about bullying.

Every administration wishes their school was bullying free.

Buy stamping out bullying is a near impossible task: it exists wherever groups exist, throughout life.

Kids are sneaky, lying, devious little bastards, and overworked, understaffed teaching staff cannot be everywhere. The range of sanctions they can impose will not always work as a deterrent (and no, neither will adult on child punishment violence).

Physical bullying is actually the easiest to deal with. There will usually be evidence, witnesses, and policy can be clear. The more insidious and, in many ways more harmful, bullying takes place verbally and on social media where it is largely hidden from teachers and parents. And what can a teacher do about an out of school hours facebook post anyway? Taking the victim off social media isn't the answer either, as it just further isolates them from the social operations of their peers (as well as punishing them rather than the bullies).

Schools can, and should, do better on bullying. More staffing, better training, improved policies, specialist behaviour units within and outside school will all help. But it is not just a matter of willpower or caring. Neither will the problem ever be eliminated.
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Yah, I don't think schools have yet to really figured out how to get a grasp on Cyber Bullying other then smacking down any outright thing they can see.

In my town next year schools are starting to do a process where they will now be able to see what every student is doing on there computer at all times...while creeping into authoritative plans...seems to be the only way to stop it if they insist on having computers be just about for everything now...I guess as long as its only the school PC's then its not to intrusive.
A lot of elective teachers are the worst when it comes to monitoring bullying. Tech Ed and art teachers in my experience let far too much of it go without confronting them. The worst bullying I had came in 8th grade art class. Neither of the teachers gave a shit. One didn't even have tenure I don't think. Hopefully she was fired. Of course one of the tech Ed teachers I had was a two faced bully in his own right. Worse the guy taught for two years before becoming assistant principal. So he clearly didn't go into education for pedagogy just administration.
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LonelyStoner posted...
Its really no wonder fewer and fewer people are going for teaching jobs. Fuck the parents. They taught the bully how to bully and should be held accountable instead of the administration rolling over and showing their bellies.

And it's not all parents, which is the worst thing. But the small few of them ruin it for everyone. School is supposed to be a place where you enjoy yourself, learn some stuff, and figure out who you are, but we go so far out of our way to cater to the bottom 10%.

ROBANN_88 posted...
I was bullied as a kid, and the only advice i got was "just ignore them, and they will get bored. They just want to get a reaction, so don't do anything"

Ignoring them may do something when it comes to just verbal bullying, but obviously not physical bullying. This idea that if you're punched in the face you're just supposed to "ignore it" is inhumane.

Most previous research about bullies is just wrong. We used to think that bullies had low self-esteem and bullied other people to feel better about themselves, but in reality, most bullies are like Donald Trump - entitled pieces of shit who think their shit doesn't stink.

ai123 posted...
Physical bullying is actually the easiest to deal with. There will usually be evidence, witnesses, and policy can be clear. The more insidious and, in many ways more harmful, bullying takes place verbally and on social media where it is largely hidden from teachers and parents. And what can a teacher do about an out of school hours facebook post anyway? Taking the victim off social media isn't the answer either, as it just further isolates them from the social operations of their peers (as well as punishing them rather than the bullies).

Even when it comes to verbal bullying and teasing, what can you do?

You can yell at the bully and tell him to stop, but the harmful words were already said.

You can try to discipline the bully, but how? Most schools won't do it because the bullies have parents who are also bullies and will complain and try to get you fired. What consequence could you dole out for verbal bullying? There really isn't much you can do, which is the problem. The best thing schools can do is try to separate students, but that doesn't really solve the problem, it's just a minor fix.

Necronmon posted...
Yah, I don't think schools have yet to really figured out how to get a grasp on Cyber Bullying other then smacking down any outright thing they can see.

In my town next year schools are starting to do a process where they will now be able to see what every student is doing on there computer at all times...while creeping into authoritative plans...seems to be the only way to stop it if they insist on having computers be just about for everything now...I guess as long as its only the school PC's then its not to intrusive.

Phones just shouldn't be allowed in schools period. It's so detrimental to students' health and well-being.
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