Father of lots, earnest as shit, Regular and not too fancy, weird li’l guy enthusiast. He/him.
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“Here is the machine where we cannot and will not stop you from playing games all the time and if we catch you playing games we will punish you for it, but it’s also super arbitrary because everybody’s playing, and if your parent asks us to not put it in front of you, we’ll listen for one (1) day.”
This feels like old man grumbling and yeah, it’s a little bit that. Kids have been dicking around in school ever since there was school. But I don’t know that schools have ever been like “here is your state issued dicking around machine, make sure it is open in front of you at all times.”
I had to rush out and get my kid some poster board to do a science presentation that he was supposed to take a few days to do in class, except he had to do it all last night, because he just plays games all class and *didn’t even know they had the assignment*.
My wife and I are still navigating learning the seven apps we need to know to keep track of our kids’ school activities, none of which had tutorials or anything. And we’ve got four other kids.
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My favorite insecure Trump bit is when he refers to himself as “your favorite president (me!)” as though if he didn’t include the parenthetical his cultists might be like “fuck yeah Millard Fillmore!”
I’m sensitive to the fact that sometimes good reporting takes a while. I get it. And I’m sensitive to the fact that publishing partial results may preclude getting the rest of the story. Still, this all seems off kilter.
And if there are times where the tablets must be used, which of course I accept that there are, there must be *some* safeguard against the children having basically open access to game proxy sites that bypass school blocks, along with Google Docs where they pass these sites around.
I’m glad this information is getting out there but we should really normalize journalists writing long form magazine pieces that take months rather than cashing out for books that take years.
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I’m about ready to become a single issue local voter, and the single issue is Do Not Put a Computer in My Kid’s Face at All Times in Every Class.
