ButteredMonkey

Don't, "butter your bread where you earn it."

School Chromebooks don't come with games, except for the "No Internet Game" which is baked into Chrome. The games being used are web games. Schools have blocking agents, but the websites mutate faster than the blocking software. (Looking at you .io domains)

My school eventually deployed software that only allows students on teacher approved sites, a "block all BUT..." rule and the little devils learned that if they opened more than 50 tabs that agent stopped filtering. I've also had students buy an identical Chromebook to their school issued one and use a hotspot to bypass all detection and filtering.

No. My experience growing up in Appalachia in the 80's was the kids (who were older 15-20) were not trick or treating. They were just going out to cause mayhem. Houses where I lived were far enough apart (miles) that you trick or treated by auto. I remember several Halloweens that were disrupted because someone had cut a tree down across the road blocking it. One memorable Halloween someone piled old tires under an overpass and set them on fire preventing anyone from proceeding further.

No one says eff off to the kids. If you're not participating you turn your porch/outside lights off and kids know not to visit your house. They just move on. 99% of the stories are mischief makers or someone who has a problem with you prior to Halloween. (Like you are a teacher or something.)

I've tried it with younger kids 8-10 and older kids (11-13). When I said "Ok I'll take the trick then." they just stand there with a confused look on their face. Even if I explain that I don't want to give you candy, so go ahead and trick me, I've only had one kid who said "What's that? and pointed over my shoulder." The others continued to stand there confused or started to walk away.

Thank you Internet stranger for the gift of your amusing poop-a-saurous story. It was just what I needed. 👍

Normally that's exactly what they would do if enough students destroyed their computers to blow through the loaners. The frustrating thing is this is happening right when schools are set to do state testing and state testing is mostly online now. This requires every student in the building to have a device at the same time. Normally all the loaners would be for kids who forgot theirs that day.