Do your students have to sign an Acceptable Use Policy? It
details all of the things that can and cannot be done. If they
violate anything, they can be disciplined. My school takes
computer vandalism VERY seriously. If I have something even
small like a mouse ball being removed from the computer, I can
write the student up for violating the AUP. This constitutes
vandalism because the students are not allowed to alter or
reconfigure the hardware.

On 10/24/09, overwhelmed wrote:
> I am new to teaching computers. I have a class of 24 8th
> graders. 1 of them is a special ed kid who really could
> use an aide but doesn't have one. The computers frequently
> freeze, in spite of my many work orders.
>
> I'm having a really tough time. The kids have gone into
> other kids' files on the shared drive and deleted their
> work, pried the keys off the keyboards and put them on
> upside down, taken the tracking balls out of the mice...
>
> And I can't watch every kid every minute. It's tough to
> accuse someone if you don't see them doing it. I"m not in
> that room all the time.
>
> What can I do?

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