...these kids in particular, flipping chromebooks
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v.redd.itPosted Jan 9, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC
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v.redd.itOh god please don't let this become a thing in our school.
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Some of the kids at our school started a rumor the the cases could keep the iPads from breaking, even if you tossed them off the second floor balcony.
It was bad.
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Anecdotally, I've tested gum drop cases that do survive 2nd story drops, repeatedly.
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Can confirm tossed down two flights of stairs and threw it pretty far in the parking lot. It’s still kicking a year and a half later.
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It's going viral hard to stop it from reaching the masses lol
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I want to punch every one of them, hard
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+1
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This isn't a technology issue but a classroom management issue.
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Also known in my district as ITs problem to solve
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BWAHHAHAHA you're hilarious. There's no such thing as "not a technology issue."
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Great. Everyone else have the most repairs at middle schools (6-8 grade)?
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Yep...no question about it.
The K-5 kids are great because it's a special thing they get to use. The 9-12 kids are pretty good because they need it to do work. The 6-8 kids are irredeemable douches with technology and will do anything if they get board or if they can get 2 seconds of attention from anyone.
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The 6-8 kids are irredeemable douches
You could've just stopped there.
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This is my life too. I always think “was I such a major douche in middle school? Or is this a new thing?”
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Yes, absolutely.
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Nope. The high schools in my district have a ridiculously high repair rate due to no supervision and no accountability.
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Not me. I have one specific class of 9th graders who have done more damage to the chromebook cart in that room than the rest of the district combined. Of course, the teacher has no idea how it could be happening.
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Abso-frakkin-lutely! Multiple times they will break the new ones within hours of repairing it. They like ripping the swivel cameras off and switching the keys around as well.
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7th through 8th are by far and away the worse, and they aren't even the take home kids. 9-12 take home... K-6th is better than 7-8 ffs.
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It 5 through 8 here. 9th can be borderline some times if it's an immature class. When it's refresh time, the new stuff goes to high or low grades, the used stuff gets moved to the middle grades which is where the oldest stuff gets taken out of service. Devices survive a bit longer now that we cycle it that way.
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Is this the new trend we get to look out for?
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And what are we going to do about it? Make a policy? 😏
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I had a policy where I gave kids who intentionally damaged their chromebooks the previous generation chromebook. Apparently that was unfair treatment and made them feel different, so Im not allowed to do it anymore.
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I see where you went wrong. You can't sell it as "you get the previous gen", you have to sell it as "we'll replace it with what we have on hand. Due to budgeting we can't replace with a new one every time".
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Bingo!
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We have to block it in the web filter. <SARCASM>
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Almost tempted to send this video to the super and tech director at Cedar Cliff schools.
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Send it to the school board too.
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and a local news station since these were school provided ones.
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Why must you trigger me so?
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Go ahead and "chromebook flip" but every one of you owes me $250 each time you do so we can replace that device.
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After a brand new chromebook didn't survive 3 days, our students learned very quickly we have no problem billing for damages. As it was brand new and I didn't want to void the warranty (I'm not HP certified) I sent it in to HP. The student (parents) paid $140 for the screen replacement on a device that cost us $180 to buy in the first place. We let them tell their friends about it. Haven't had any more damage this year!
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Not familiar w Chromebooks - do they perchance come with Gyroscopes? Nice little daemon that records 360 spins and issues an invoice to the parents immediately.
Student centered pedagogy and all - but seeing this, well - erm - yes. Raising responsible adults, we are.
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At $200 the accelerometer was cost-engineered right out.
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What sucks about this is we will likely have no way of knowing that this happened. We have a lot of "dead board" cases where we get no video output from Chromebooks, and while there's no hard evidence I'm sure a lot of them are due to repeated drops, bangs, etc. and the board has hairline cracks in it etc.
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How'd the screen break? It came out of the bag like that.
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Bruuuuuh
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They don't get another chromebook.
How does that work? How do they do the work that's required of them? They need to buy their own? But then it isn't managed. What about actual failures? Kids just SOL?
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So y’all don’t bill the kids for damage?
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Is this a thing now?
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Looks to be out of New Cumberland, PA and surrounding.
Also Cedar Cliff High School, PA
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If I saw that Id have those kids in front of the dean so fast they swear that they've been flipped.
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flips chromebook in front of him and lands it, wow, easy pz, lemon sqeezy
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"So what did you do to it?"
"I just opened it and it was like that"
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"I touched it with my fist." Is my personal favorite.
"I opened my Chromebook resource website and your account just suddenly had a charge placed on it... Oohhh noooo"
I get this all the time
I also posted this in the other thread. I once had a kid say this with a destroyed Chromebook. After we called the mother she called back later saying the dad tripped over the back pack and threw it a few times that morning.