Why do students feel the need to constantly ask about how to get onto myspace/facebook at school?

Question

Don't you kiddos realize those blocks are there for a reason and there are infinitely more constructive things you could be doing with your time during school hours? Like studying, getting your work done, and not wasting your parents hard earned tax money.

You guys should be thankful you have computers in school, a generation ago we didn't. Many schools still don't.

Why do you all feel the need to abuse a very generous privilege bestowed upon you all?

Answer 1

It's entitlement. They are an 'entitlement generation'.
Computers, cell phones, ipods, etc are their 'right', not a privilege.
I've even had some of them tell me that I'm not able to 'comprehend computers'. (I _am_ one of those who helped to develop the blasted things. I think that I comprehend their abuse as well as anyone).
Perhaps we taxpayers should defeat any and all school levys until the teacher's union, various BofE, and school admins get a clue and take control of these prima donnas.
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Answer 2

I wish we "grownups" would get off our high-horses about this stuff. When we were in school we weren't any better and to believe otherwise is a crock. We passed notes, we drew on the desktops, we feel asleep in class, turned in homework late, thought the teachers were full of crap and that nothing that we learned in school would ever be of any use to us.

Kids and teenagers today simply have a more interesting way of communicating than we did "back in the day" (which, by the way, was a Wednesday). I say that we SHOULD give them the latest proxies and ways of getting around filters and firewalls at their schools. If they get caught, it's a life lesson - don't get caught. Getting caught passing a note in school would result in detention where I went. I understand that at most schools it's the same for a first offense when bypassing filters. At some it's worse, of course, depending on the administration.

As it is, we need to get down off our soap-boxes and start talking _to_ these kids instead of _at_ them. We weren't any better back in our day. I remember a Baz Luhrman song called "Everybody's Free":

Prices will rise
Politicians will philander
You too will get old
And when you do you will believe that when you were young
Prices were reasonable
Politicians were honest
And children respected their elders

As a side note, just so you don't believe that this is coming from the mouth of a slacker, I graduated from high school with a 2.5 GPA then joined the Army and was a Korean Linguist. After 11 years of active duty service I decided that college was for me so I left active duty, joined the National Guard and went to college. I was called back to active duty along with my unit in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and did my year-long tour in Iraq proudly even though I did not support the war. I came home, finished college at the age of 35, graduating summa *** laude with a backelor's of science and I now pull down a steady income as a software engineer with a large aerospace company programming flight simulators.

Kids, keep trying to get onto myspace. If nothing else, you keep geeks like me employed making sure that kids like you are toeing the line.

To those who don't want kids on myspace while they're at school, learn more about the technology and figure out ways to stop them besides berating them on Yahoo! Answers.

Answer 3

I am currently a senior in hight school i cant tell you how much free time i have a school .... i am an honor student so i do all my homework and get good grades but when you have 85 min class period that you do nothing but sit there because it is sudy all and you have like three of them... you think they would unblack myspace its not gonna stop us from finding ways to hack it.... there are so many ways to do this...that we will figure it out... its not like we are skipping school or doing drugs or haveing sex we just wanna check our myspace and talk to friend... and be a teenager... its not like we are aroung computers 24/7 either the only time im around a computer at my school is when i am in study hall or in computer class... so unbloc it

Answer 4

nicely i think of they must merely concentration on coaching the youngsters particularly than dropping there time thinking in the event that they hate a definite instructor. First some people shop there pages inner maximum so are they going to deliver a letter domicile saying that is inner maximum permit you already know toddler to un do it so we are in a position to work out. that's the mothers and dads subject what's on their myspace not the colleges. teenagers would be teenagers and use undesirable language and make exciting of one yet another.

Answer 5

Amen!

The same reason they have cell phones with rings their teachers can't hear - kids just don't care. It's not enough that they see their friends during class while they aren't paying attention, they also need to send a Myspace message while seeing their friends and then giggle about their private joke - that everyone else will see when they log into Myspace.

Answer 6

They are all busy studying hard for a career of emptying bed-pans in a hospital. Or perhaps some are planning on getting a "good" job...perhaps a French Fry Chef at McDonald's

Answer 7

It's because we worry too much about trivia rather than learning our lessons, and dreaming of sex.

Answer 8

They don't care. They don't understand. They don't feel is a privilege.

Answer 9

you tell them a million times... they would have no clue what your saying..

They'll understand once they graduate (or not) and have hard time finding a decent job...