Timeline for Should I let my child's school have access to my kid's personal laptop?
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| Sep 18, 2018 at 8:35 | comment | added | Agent_L | @MontyHarder That's another thing: understanding that a computer is controlled not by the one who holds it's deed, but by the one who holds keys to it's OS. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 18:50 | comment | added | Monty Harder | @Agent_L As usul points out, the huge difference between "my computer" and "work computer" is that $EMPLOYER paid for the latter. It's the idea that the school can mandate that you pay for it and then they act like its their property that sticks in my craw. If the school bought the laptops and issued them to the students, I'd say "School property, so they write the rules. Put a piece of electrical tape over the web cam so they don't spy on you, and live with the rest of it." | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 9:18 | comment | added | Agent_L | Great idea, it will also teach the kid the difference between "my computer" and "computer of my employer" that many adults lack. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 8:27 | comment | added | Ruadhan2300 | Well yes, though if possible I'd argue for the isolated work hardware. I remember how devious I was when I wanted to do something my parents didn't allow, giving me a dual-boot laptop with my games on one and my work on the other? I'd just boot up on my personal system at every opportunity, it'd be far too tempting. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 21:15 | comment | added | sudo rm -rf slash | Or dual boot. It's a bit cheaper than another laptop | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 19:28 | comment | added | usul | I tend to agree. The right way of thinking about what's happening here is the school is requiring you to pay for a work-only laptop for the child that they administer. You have a good argument against paying for it, but not a good argument against them administering it. Adults don't expect their work laptop to be usable as a full-time personal device either. (Of course if you can get them to agree not to install anything, that's even better.) | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 15:02 | history | answered | Ruadhan2300 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |