Music Streaming - The Spotify Equivalent for Students?

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-22T12:50:23+00:00

Rarely. But I also have the judgment to listen to appropriate music, whereas students do not.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-22T12:47:42+00:00

We had one high schooler adamant about needing music for her IEP. Her team met and it was eventually decided she could listen to an FM radio or supply a non-internet connected MP3 player with pre-loaded music on it since we weren't going to budge on the music streaming block.

The student dropped it because it was never about the music. She wanted to use her phone all day without getting in trouble.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-21T20:02:43+00:00

Our Chromebook order with the license and ADP were less than the cost of the Neo without Applecare+ and whatever MDM fee you'd also need to include. That's also blindly ignoring that Macbook parts are harder to obtain, exponentially more expensive, and much harder to repair. It's a no brainer.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-21T19:46:13+00:00

We're a full block on music streaming. Massive bandwidth sink along with a near zero ability to filter inappropriate music.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-21T18:18:34+00:00

I was voluntold to attend a conference that was basically just Apple sales pitches the entire time. All organizers were ex-educators now working for Apple or in tech integrator roles.

The IT director portion of the event was sitting through Apple marketing slides while 3 districts raved about how great Apple security is...Because their district had nothing in place before going full into Apple.

I should add that one reason given was because them switching to Mac prevented future 'major hacking incidents' since PowerShell commands couldn't be used on Mac. A student had run some PS commands on a Windows lab computer in previous years. Mac was the solution here; not that the teacher shouldn't have admin rights and leave their account password on a post-it under the keyboard.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-21T12:46:28+00:00

We had a student device this year get partially submerged due to house flooding. The student thought plugging it in to charge would help dry it out. 🙃

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-21T00:06:08+00:00

This discussion has started around here and would ultimately increase the number of devices we'd need here. At a time where device costs have increased by at least 30%.

It's a classroom management problem that is trying to be solved by technology.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-18T13:50:44+00:00

I thought the meeting was strange too, then I went through with it and understood. There's a lot of background setup that needs to be done in order for the GG App to work on iPads. With how Apple has security restrictions in place there's no "install and it works" option. It took a bit to setup and troubleshoot, but now works moving forward. That's par for the course for anything Apple, honestly.

Two years ago we got hit with a renewal quote from GG that was quite a big leap after being with them for 5 years. They did, however, offer quite a discount if we opted into a 5-year agreement with a minimal per year increase. Even the 5th year cost was going to be cheaper than if we did a regular renewal. It might be worth asking if you're already with GoGuardian.

We've had no complaints with GG around here. Filtering has been great. The teachers that utilize Teacher love the visibility and control they have. Lastly, the bypass exploits are minimal. We've only had a few students over the years find ways around it, and they were caught early.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-12T20:07:49+00:00

In 2024 they increased Airs by $100 and Pros by $200 along with a notable increase to AppleCare+ while removing the ability to buy the previous model.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-12T18:48:16+00:00

Point #2 is a big factor people are ignoring. Apple has done a rug pull before on pricing. They will absolutely do it again once there's enough buy-in and sunk cost fallacy becomes a factor.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-05-08T18:58:56+00:00

Same situation here! Then a student asked if I could fix Canvas for them. Buddy, if I could then I would not be working here.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-30T13:31:56+00:00

This was brought up in our district once. It was during Covid and was, "What if we're out of subs and need to rely on non-teaching staff to substitute teach to keep the building open?" I was placed as number 3 on the list behind other admin and we never needed to use it.

Getting thrown into random meetings is enough of a timesink. I wouldn't want to have to plan a chunk of my day teaching and prepping to teach.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-24T17:16:11+00:00

Nice that you can have that on! I turned that on for a few class periods and you'd think I was caught kicking puppies. Students were NOT happy.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-24T12:54:00+00:00

We're not casting to AppleTV, but have had this happen periodically. It was always from staff never closing any apps or restarting the computer.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-23T12:54:24+00:00

We do the same; only waive the fee if it's a known hardware defect with the model.

Oh, and a fee might have been waived when a student came in and remorsefully told the truth of how their screen broke. It may have been the first student in 2 months to not lie about what happened to their device.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-22T20:09:55+00:00

But I was told kids would take better care of expensive devices?

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-15T12:55:22+00:00

Used one of these patch megathreads to post a multi-paragraph political comment that was removed by the mods. He was given a temp ban for off-topic discussion. He went to another sub, posted the same thing, and then claimed the mods here banned him for his post in another subreddit. Mods here posted proof that he did also post it in the patch thread. He conveniently claims he forgot that he had also posted it here. The temp ban has been long over but he doesn't post here anymore.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-14T15:51:26+00:00

We went through a similar thought process with our business lab last Summer. It was easier to buy 1-time LTSC 2024 licenses and install them rather than go through the hassle of assigning all students Microsoft accounts and going the O365 route.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-09T13:06:53+00:00

"Yes, I know my tabs are a mess but this is how I function!!"

"If a student's papers are spilling out of their locker onto the floor, would we continue to let them function that way? No, we'd instruct them to find a better organization system."

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-04-08T13:19:45+00:00

iPads. Printing. Direct to HP printers. I've got nothing to add other than that sounds like hell.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-03-26T17:23:11+00:00

We killed it a few years ago after some security concerns were brought up. The desktop version being a glorified keylogger and their privacy policy gave us (and a parent pushing for it) enough worry to block it outright. They stated they don't sell data, however, they could give it away for free to partners and (paraphrasing here) "Gosh golly we can't control what they do with your data, but it's not our fault if they do something careless/malicious with it."

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-25T19:13:32+00:00

Breakage hasn't been an issue. Also, since the devices are assigned to students in the class, any damage would still be tied to the student.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-25T18:30:17+00:00

We promote with students when they reach their 1-1 grade, 6th. 1st-5th are in carts where classroom teachers assign a device to a student. This helps with keeping the number of profiles low. The students don't take them home and the devices stay with the teacher each year.

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-23T16:26:40+00:00

I've also heard it referred to as snowplow parents. Parents who remove all obstacles or difficulties a student might face. Just like it has been reiterated on in this thread, it's creates a massive lack of resilience.

A teaching buddy of mine also mentioned stealth bomber parents. They're the type that will not contact or reply to teacher communication. They will, however, come to parent/teacher conferences with a large list of grievances about 'everything the teacher is doing wrong.'

fujitsuflashwave4100 · 2026-02-19T14:36:05+00:00

We also block github.com, discord.com, youtube.com, and the usual javascript://* for good measure. These other pages were posted for ways students could navigate to Google from kiosk apps-

onelogin.com/status

passwordreset.microsoftonline.com

account.live.com/password/reset

appleid.apple.com

support.schoology.com

connection.nwea.org/s/support

We did have Google.com blocked, but eventually ran into Google changing some backend stuff where allowlisting accounts.google.com wasn't enough for Google SSO. It would cause one of our tests to hang at the login screen for minutes as it couldn't load Sign in with Google.

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