Report those fuckers to the school board and files complaints.
People need to protest social media as part of education and fuck schools that vendor lock in their students to M$ bullshit as well.
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XiELEd@piefed.social 21 hours agoI’m pretty much forced to use Facebook and Messenger because of school. Some teachers will grade you only if you upload your work and tag them on there, sometimes you have to repost or like videos because your project is a video and there’s a group competition based on those metrics, and because Messenger is the default mode of communication between students and teachers, as well as a way to contact people for your graded surveys.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
XiELEd@piefed.social 20 hours ago
It is not feasible unfortunately, and if I were to put that as a complaint, I would most likely be called unhinged, out-of-touch, or trying to discard a perfectly usable system. We can only raise questions and influence people as of now. Besides, the reason why Messenger is popular is because of the freebasics service which allows people to use Messenger for free.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
lol fuck that apathetic attitude.
We all need to be sand in their oligarch machines.
Schools need to teach that “FREE” does not mean free. Might be another good thing to bring up with the school board cause clearly that’s a lesson they didn’t learn.
XiELEd@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Apathetic attitude? Not everyone has the privilege of having ever been under an authority figure who actually cares about their job. My school can’t even bother to fix their drainage system, my city has had its reputation dragged in the mud on national TV for its shitty (literally) garbage collection system, even though people have been complaining about these for months. Do you seriously think they’ll take my opinion seriously? If I try to rally people to my cause, which would most likely be on Facebook, people would just snarkily say I’m overreacting and that I’m a hypocrite for using Facebook (which is the only thing I have). Even when I complained about the drainage system I was being name-called and insulted by someone who thought that making any demands to a school as a student was being entitled and what did I get out of it? Nothing! Do you think the geriatrics at the upper level even care about privacy or information? They still admire Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg goddammit! Have you ever had to really fight for a cause? Because you are painting an unrealistic landscape that I’ve never been able to see my entire life.
DougHolland@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’ve avoided Facebook for so long, the idea that it’s required as part of an ‘education system’ bewilders me. Wow.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
You have no idea how deep the education system is now into gafam. To study in Quebec now, you absolutly need a cell phone with ms authenticator, teams is basically mandatory, etc. I’m one of the only teacher at my college that cares enough to show use and show foss alternative to my students. For example Moodle is the most powerfull tool a teacher could dream of for grades, quizz, file sharing, assigments, etc. Yet most teachers prefer ms bullshit suite for everything…
Archer@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Awesome that Moodle is still around!
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
GroupMe (Microsoft) and Discord isn’t required for pure learning purposes, but 99% of clubs at my school use them, so I’d be unable to participate in a lot of shit if I dropped them.
Instead we just get stalked by Canvas for any assignment/classwork related purposes. Oh, and lockdown browser for online tests…
But I could totally believe teachers forcing students to use some shitty app to communicate with students and submit work.