Anyone recommend a tough PC?

[pcman]

Old school where I used to work upgraded to RM Ones and still had a problem.

 

As has been stated, wires cut, optical eye on mice poked. Keys on keboard picked off/swapped.

 

I took away internet access, got moaned at by the heads. I asked them to do something to help me, just told to replace parts.

 

So without SMT support it will be hard.

 

However back to point and regarding blanking plates, if you know that you're not going to be installing CD-ROMS then you can cover them up with suitable plastic sheets and use Tensol to glue/fuse them on. Will stop students getting stuff in and out and you.

 

Tensol Cement

 

Do after school so fumes clear.

[El_Nombre]

I think your SMT need to tackle in class behaviour management and also look at rooms that are not teacher base rooms and thus are not looked after in the expected manner?

 

Buying hideously expensive nuclear proof PC's is just fighting the fire, you need to look at stopping kids from lighting the fires in the first place?

 

Billing the parents for damage works a treat. Not sure if you'd be able to implement that?

 

Butuz

 

Absolutely well worth bearing in mind. Yes, we have recently started to enforce new measures against vandalism and new room allocation guidelines are being put into place. We hope this will at least limit the damage, but it won't be avoided entirely. Billing is also something we're working on.

 

Some teachers are better at enforcing this than others though it has to be said. Our results may vary I think. In the 'dodgier' rooms though (which may well be due for upgrade sometime) I'll be all for fitting the toughest PCs I can find along with a few ED209s.

 

The problem of banning is one I'm sure a million of us have faced, and banning for vandalism isn't something we'll look at too hard. It's all too easy to bypass us with "How can I teach if X is banned?" which is indeed a valid point. I'll leave the portioning of punishment to the heads and department heads who are more than capable so long as damage is reported promptly and treated seriously, which is now about to start happening with great vengeance and furious anger.

 

I often wondered at registering kids at computers for lessons... Of course, we can see who logged on where with Ranger but if it becomes open and shut enough within a lesson to see that a mouse is missing or a keyboard has swearwords on it by the end and John Smith was registered on the machine it can be reported immediately and dealt with then and there, rather than half-remembered and part of a landslide vandalism repair day with no fingers to point.

 

Still, anything in registering kids to machines? I'm about to go off my own topic here though...