What to Know
As a parent, it’s a good idea to check your kids’ internet searches to make sure they are being safe and using their devices in an appropriate way. When they’re at school and you can’t do that with their Chromebooks, don’t worry, because teachers have remote access to what students are searching, reading, and watching at any given time.
One teacher, Briana, posted a video on TikTok where she shares her own students’ weird and maybe even a little inappropriate internet searches and tabs they have open while in class. Mostly, though, what these kids are looking up is a little strange rather than dangerous. And it’s all the more reason to want to know what goes through some kids’ minds.
Some of the students’ searches aren’t even inappropriate, they’re just weird.
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Back in the day, teachers had to rely on being able to take a walk around the class and see what students were looking at or searching in between playing The Oregon Trail. Now, teachers have access to remotely close tabs and shut down inappropriate content if they catch their students searching it or watching it.
Briana wrote in the caption of her TikTok that her student’s weird, if sometimes inappropriate searches, are what “brighten” her day. One of the searches she brings up shows that a kid looked up “is cough syrup medicine?” I mean I don’t even have a valid reason why a kid would need to search that, but OK.
Another internet search said, “what does bomboclat mean?” Apparently, bomboclat refers to a Jamaican swear word similar to the F-word. Another student Googled what it means if the back of their head hurts and their mouth is dry. Briana noted that she had that kid go to the nurse, which was probably a good idea. And hey, it goes to show how useful this big brother technology is for students and teachers alike.
When a kid brought up a YouTube video to watch that actually turned out to be an inappropriate video of puppets including a popular one named Jeffy that somehow got over the firewall, Briana was quick to close it. But monitoring internet searches is so important, regardless of how innocent the searches and content might seem. And when Briana revealed in the comments that her students are in high school, these particular searches made that even clearer. I can’t be the only one who assumed these were seventh graders at the absolute oldest.
Parents and teachers left comments on Briana’s video to share their own experiences with kids’ strange internet searches.
One teacher wrote that the best one they saw from one of their eighth graders was “Best pickup lines to use on a girl.”
A parent added, “when my son was in first grade his teacher sent me his screenshots of him trying to book a flight to Colorado during class.”
Most of the parents are in agreement, however, that these kinds of searches are par for the course with kids of almost any age in school.
