Should student's computers be monitored by their teachers?

in my school they are and plus when cant text or play games the school wifi does not let us do that

how silly

If the computers are school computers then hell yes. If it is a students personal computer the teachers should be allowed to make sure that they are not playing, surfing web, or texting other people during class. personal computers at lunch or between class is the students business.

If you mean their personal ones at home, then absolutely not. If you mean a computer in class that belongs to the school, then maybe yes. You need to be more specific.

if they have the time

If they are in the classroom, definitely.

I picked no because you said "Students Computers" I am assuming you mean their personal computer. No absolutely not!

If you meant the school's computers being used by a student. Yes they absolutely should

You gotta get better questions - this is not a Yes or No question.

Do said computers belong to the school or the student? Are you talking about monitoring them at school or all the time? How much monitoring is "monitoring"?

Computers that belong to students should be actively, but randomly, monitored for activity while on school premises. Outside of school, students' personal computers are beyond the purview of the school and must never be subject to monitoring.

Computers that belong to the school should have a daemon that monitors and logs all computer activity at all times, and those logs should be routinely checked. All files placed on these computers should also be routinely checked.

Unless the school and out taxpayer money paid for them, then it's open season, use them for school only.

Especially if the taxpayers are providing the computers. If their computer is brought in from their home, the teacher should be allowed to inspect to it ensure that nothing violent, pornographic or subversive is on it. Others students should not be tainted by such stuff.

Schools already make many sites inaccessible. Kids are curious. They will snoop around and try to access sites that are off limits.

In our home, the family computer sits in the family room so it is easily monitored. I check the history anyway. We've had a few talks about Facebook. My office computer is off limits and they know it.

As a parent of a teenager, I say its a good idea. Not every kid has the same freedom at home to have total privacy on a computer so why should school differ? When my daughter was 15 she gave personal info to her friends on Facebook. The only problem with that was 80% of those friends she doesn't know and/or has never met. She innocently thought only her two best friends would be interested in that information. I think until they become adults, monitoring is a good thing.

I'm sorry, are we talking about computer classes? Please tell me we don't sit our kids in front of computers for 8 hours a day.

Where have you been the last half dozen years or so???? ;)

I doubt any school sits kids in front of a computer eight hours a day, but computers are not something that you only need to learn in a computer class. In the best schools, kids from lower grades on up are learning to use word processors, presentation software, and how to use the Internet to accomplish various projects.

Oh - and in the best schools, kids don't only sit and do their own work anymore either. They are placed in groups and assigned portions of a project and must work with the others in their group to ensure that their portion of the project will blend with the other students' portions. The older the students, the more complex and variable the projects.

Home schooling my step son because we pulled him out of the horrible "School of excellence" that he was attending. They graduate idiots. It was a drug infested cesspool.

My niece is getting her Master's degree. She was in class the other day and listening to her fellow classmates' horror stories of teachers who don't know the answers to questions - they can only grade the papers and tests because they have the answer key!

I am SO impressed with the quality of teachers represented by the American Federation of Teachers: The Union of Professionals! :-p

I bet those teachers have high self-esteem though.

Yes. Presuming they are school owned computers.

When students are in school, they are supposed to be learning not play on FB. lol

I would think, that a password would be used on school PC's for web content. Still, kids prove to be in ingenious and need to be monitored.

yes

If you're referring to school laptops, absolutely.

They already monitor it enough by blocking almost every known site to man.

If it is public property a Student should expect no right to privacy.
Besides if a Student gets something from a School computer in this litigious society you know the majority of Parents threaten to sue. Schools need to protect the taxpayers.

However, if the computer is personally owned and not one that belongs to the school, then the teacher's need to leave it alone because it's the child's property and they have a right to privacy.

Just like how many companies monitor their employees' computers, so that they can make sure no activities that go against their policies were made and their employees wouldn't slack off.



Monitoring students' own computer at home is a no-no, though.

Just common sense

a person's personal property is theirs to do as they want . as long as it is legal.

if it is the school property , then the school has the last word ..

They should only be monitored at school via software means. However, they shouldn't be monitored when they are at home. What you do at home should be your own business.

well, if it is the student's own personal computer then no. if it isn't, than yes.

Sod that. I know I would have hated it, so should today's students.

If I was a student, I'd treat a school computer like an employee should treat a work computer. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is private.

In high school and below? yes.

It depends if we are talking about high school, middle school, or college? Until I know that I can't answer intelligently.

Why would that matter if it is the School's property?

The question said should student's computers be monitored. Not that it was the school's computers. But that's besides the point. Ask the question because I am a college student and there is no real need to monitor us, we are legally adults and many of us do projects on topics that could be blocked. For instance I do a research project on female mutilation and some of the stuff I saw and looked up should definetly be blocked to someone who is in elementary school. Yet at the same time in high school a kid almost got suspended for looking up vagina when he was doing a project for sex E.D. He would have been suspended if he teacher didn't come to his rescue. I think monitoring could be beneficial but also severely abused.

I took it as the one they were using at the school. As in they take ownership while in use.

However you do have a good point. I think there should be an additional classification that porn and sex site be required to register under. We have .com for commercial, .net for network, .edu for education, .gov for government and .mil for military. Why not add .sex for sex and porn and let the sex ed go under education.

Of course, I'm a computer engineer and IT manager so nobody listens to the rational solutions.

Well there is also the problem that if someone were to bring their own computer to school but use the school Internet connectivity they could block you through that
which technically the computer is your own do you can do as you please but it is the school's Internet so how would you judge that? (but this only really applies to high school or college students)I really don't know. I have no idea why they don't have something like that. Then again I don't know a lot of thing when It comes to censorship (or the world for that matter).