How do I watch anime in school?

This group is for asking questions specifically about Librarything.
We here won't help you get around your school's restrictions. Maybe read a book. I hear there are many manga that follow the same storylines as anime.

>1 KURAKU5424:

If looking for ways around your school's rules is why you are here, I suggest you go elsewhere. This is a book cataloguing site.

>2 gilroy: Maybe the group description needs to be edited to specifically mention LibraryThing. Not that most of these kids will actually red that, but just in case.

>1 KURAKU5424: Sharing your school system isn't a good idea. there's too many bad actors looking for ways to scam you.

Plus, you don't know who knows your school system or city. You really want to send up a red flag to your teachers to monitor you even more strictly?

PS: if you want to watch anime in school, you could try taking classes in animation or Japanese pop culture, but I doubt you attend Douglas Anderson HS for the art track.

They're right, it is a frequently asked question.

My goodness. Do kids these days never get internet safety courses? Or even taught 'stranger danger'? I would never imagine as a kid telling adult strangers what school I go to, let alone announcing it to millions through the internet. Do you get into stranger's vans for free candy as well?

I sincerely hope this website gets blocked from schools if this is what teens are going to do with it. Safety is no joke.

>7 GraceCollection: "...contains 208 schools and 127,971 students. "
I'm thinking they're OK.

>8 davidgn: Not necessarily! DCPS is my local district. It wouldn't take much to figure out which school this kid is at, if I went to private messages, etc. Especially if I pretended to be another kid asking about classwork, sports, whatever.

Best for kids to be taught not to share PII, and about the risks of doing so, but that's internet literacy that i don't think anyone is really teaching, except maybe those tiktokers who figure out who you are/where you live from a photo and your username.

>9 keristars: Point taken

>7 GraceCollection: I've noticed internet literacy (and broader tech literacy along with it) has seemed to really go down the shitter the past handful of years among literally all age demographics, it's brutal. Definitely doesn't help that the modern internet landscape directly very much encourages oversharing information that I remember people would've been bigger on keeping private when I was younger.

>11 ngoomie:
I'm always thinking about the Internet Ages from Because Internet, and how the way we interact with it (or perceive ourselves on it?) is influenced by how we first encountered it. And young people today have always had Facebook real names and chatting with their meatspace friends, going to school online, etc.

Hopefully no one teaches ""stranger danger"" in schools, since that myth was busted 30 years ago. The world will not end if an anonymous account mentions the name of a school system; plenty of teachers make groups here for their students with their classroom number in the name and yet we're all still here.

It's not about "stranger danger" so much as being cautious with info that could make it easier for scammers to target you. (It's a big problem with kids on roblox.) But really, there's lots of reasons to practice good privacy even with otherwise fully anonymous throwaway accounts, and key is practicing it, so it's automatic. You can't undo past oversharing.

Teachers creating class groups for posting is weird to me, but as long as they allow pseudonyms and don't require anything identifying, it's a different thing to posting a location unprompted.

The teachers often show really poor internet savvy. Many of these groups are for classes where many, most, all of the children are not actually old enough to be on LT. It would seem to me that checking age rules for a site would be in order before starting such a group. I'm not surprised that kids don't, but teachers using the internet with students ought to really check out a website before using it in class. What are the rules? Are there materials on the site that are going to upset parents? Porn as such is not allowed, and we get rid of the 'girls in Abu Dhabi' messages pretty fast, but there are plenty of covers that might raise eyebrows, and plenty of LGBTQ+ descriptions easy enough to find. We're not just talking protecting the kids here. Like maybe even the teacher's job if the wrong parent starts to dig.

The kids probably aren't being taught safe use of the internet, partly because the teachers don't know it themselves. The other end of the spectrum from my MIL who refused to have email because she was certain that if they had internet she would constantly be bombarded with porn.

To be clear, I don't mean 'stranger danger' as in 'you should never talk to any strangers,' as I'm sure we know is terrible advice — especially if a child gets lost, for example. I mean 'stranger danger' as in 'don't offer sensitive information to strangers for no reason,' as we are seeing here. Sure, maybe the world won't end — but I've known plenty of people who have been stalked or harassed because they shared the wrong information with no regard for how many people are seeing, or what those parties may want to do with said information. Children, especially, are vulnerable to being manipulated for nefarious ends. This is why websites and even entire countries are upping the minimum age for social media.

>16 GraceCollection: Many more children are sexually abused by a family member or a 'trusted' known adult - pastor, scout leader, teacher, family friend, coach, neighbour, ... than by a total stranger (10%). Children need to be taught not to fear strangers, but to try to stop any uncomfortable actions by any adult, and to report it.

>17 MarthaJeanne: I don't disagree. I also think children need to be taught 'don't offer sensitive information to strangers for no reason'.

>19 peakbakajuice: We've answered the question. Library Thing is not a place for you to skirt your school's computer/internet restrictions.