The school’s not paying for it and that’s the benefit to our students is what they’re claiming. They’re encouraging you, and this is where it got to me, was it’s encouraging you to sign it because this allows them to get the software access and the software stuff for free. As we were looking this over and reading all of this, I think that a lot of parents just sign the thing and probably don’t really realize the implication of what it is. It’s going to follow her and it’s also going to profile her, which is a problem that I have with it. If she goes all the way through high school, she’ll have this same Google Drive for all those years. They actually said it’s a Google account and she’ll have a Google Drive that is intended for an elementary school student, but it’s going to follow her, this account will follow her through her entire education within the school district here where we live in California.
We’re agreeing to, by signing to form, allowing her to have an account with the school and with Google specifically in this case. My daughter’s grammar school sent home the third grade tech policy and so I’m looking it over and reading this over and it has of course, which drove me crazy, they print out the form and there’s a clickable link that you can’t click of course so you have to go and type in this extremely long URL into Google and figure out what is on the list of approved softwares. When somebody gives you a privacy policy, I actually read it. I’m a reader and so I read the fine print on things. I always read the fine print on stuff, which just sounds so weird. I should start out by saying and prefacing that I’m little fanatical about reading things. I think it’s a subject that a lot of people will be able to relate to or a lot of you may not realize what you’re doing when you’re using some of these free CAD software. We had a unique experience lately with our daughter and her school.
Today, we want to talk about that free CAD software, “free”, and how it’s really not always free. They discuss some possible ways to change things for the better. These software usually come at the price of privacy, of dealing with ads, of having your profile up there on the internet, etc. In today’s episode, Tom and Tracy Hazzard talk about free CAD software, and how most of them are not really free.
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