638: Hop, Hop, Hop

So, as mentioned a few times in the past, my kid, for his schooling uses Chromebooks like many American children. And everything's on the Chromebook as we discussed a little bit in our in our school special. Obviously, because he is my kid, he is going to pay attention in school to the minimum degree required. And the rest of the time is goofing off on his Chromebook. Who does that sound like? Yeah. Right? And it's fine because, like, he gets decent grades and he doesn't cause problems in the class. So the teachers don't care. Like, they I'm sure I'm sure the teachers all know he's goofing off on the Chromebook and they they just have bigger fish to fry. So, like, they don't they don't bother him. He doesn't bother them. So, anyway. The Chromebooks though have various, you know, like school content blocking and filtering software installed. Now, what do middle schoolers want to see on a computer? It's nothing harmful. They're not looking up like bad adult stuff. They just wanna like watch YouTube and play games. Like, that's it. It's all about YouTube and games. That's That is like the holy grail is I wanna goof off and watch YouTube. I wanna play some stupid web game that, you know, I can make this Chromebook less horrible for myself. That's all they wanna do. So, my kid has, throughout his middle school career so far, done all sorts of things to try to evade and evade the blocks to the point where even he was like running like a spreadsheet that was shared between, like, 40 other kids, that would, like, link out to unblocked games. And as they would get blocked, they would update them. And he was basically running an open source project. Like, he he was, like, he was, like, the moderator and he was hiring, like, other moderators, trading them, like, lollipops and stuff. He, at one point, was selling ad space in the spreadsheet. Like, it was pretty impressive. Wait. Ad space, what was being advertised? Other spreadsheets by other kids. That's incredible. Like a podcast app that runs ads for podcasts in it. Right? Yeah. Can you believe? God, he really is your kid. Oh, yeah. I know. And I I told right from the start, this so he doesn't do this anymore. He's moved on to other distractions. But right from the start from that one, I told him, like, listen. I know at some point I'm gonna get called into the principal's office to talk about this. And I'm like, I just want you to be just promise me two things. Don't let people, like, post bad things about other people. And don't enable cheating. If you don't do those things, I got your back. So, fortunately, and he, oh my God, he was so clever with it. Like, he, you know, the teachers at the front of the room, they have some kind of, like, …