We moved here from central Ohio in 2018. My children started school in 6th and 8th grade. There was an immediate persona in Perrysburg of perfection and wealth but I didn’t notice the blatant disregard for my children until my son became a freshman. He had taken his Chromebook home for the summer and as a new parent that never had to deal with laptops at our old school, I assumed restrictions would be kept on the computer at all times. This wasn’t the case (ok, my bad). Two weeks before freshman year, I started all of the school prepping, took my son’s computer out and noticed it was broken! Literally broke in half! I asked my son what happened, and he very casually said, “I broke it.” Me: “On purpose?!” My son: “yes” Me: “WHY?!” My son “because I felt like it.” I was fuming to say the least and grounded him. About a week into school, he came to me crying and said he broke it because he kept looking at inappropriate images and he couldn’t stop. The only thing he knew to do to stop was to break the computer! (Thank you Jesus) This broke my heart and made me feel so guilty that I obviously didn’t protect him like I should have! With this newfound information, I committed to weekly checks on his history with his new MacBook. As I was scrolling on his MacBook I yet again, found inappropriate things that he searched in his history. Something prompted me to try and delete his history to see if he has deleted anything and to my surprise, he had the ability to delete his searches. In PB handbook, it clearly states that we as parents are responsible for what our children search while at home. I agree. But then there was this roadblock of me making him accountable if he has the ability to delete whatever he searches. How can I make him accountable if I can’t see what he searches? So, I then called the TECH dept at the HS. I got a lady. I don’t remember her name. My first thought was, “Oh good, she’s probably a mom and she will understand.” Nope. Her actual response to me was 1)she laughed as if she couldn’t believe that I was calling over something so trivial 2) she said “all HS kids do that” 3) She very quickly wrote me off and said the only thing that they could do about it was to take the computer away from my son and he would be handed papers for work in front of the class and they will all know that he got his computer taken away. I was not about to ostracize my own son and punish him for something he was struggling with and was so honest about. I needed to protect him! I researched some and realized that she was not the head of TECH so I called back the next day and asked for the guy in charge. I told him my story and he, being a father of two girls, was very understanding and helped me out right away! (There are still good people within the schools!) He took my sons computer in right away and added the restriction to delete history. The problem with this whole situation is that I have brought it up several times with school staff/admin that this restriction needs to be implemented on every MacBook automatically to allow the parents to keep their child accountable and their response was, “that takes too much time” The irony in that statement kills me! So, parents of HS student BEWARE! Go to tech and ask for the restriction! We shouldn’t have to ask. Do better PB…