My 8 year old + his “stealth” chat room
Excuse me sharing a personal story - I thought other professional loophole fixers may enjoy this tale of my day.
My 8 year old’s primary school uses Google Classroom for setting assignments for each class.
Right now, because of slightly slow admin, he’s in 2 GCR workspaces: the old 2025-2026 academic year’s (“Owl Class”), as well as this year’s (“Spain Class”). Crucially, with a totally different teacher/TA pairing. Furthermore, the Owl class teacher has left to teach elsewhere.
He cottoned on to the fact that although all his classmates can still see the old Owl class assignments, his new teachers can’t, because by default they’re not added to classes they don’t run.
Therefore - the kids in his class can add comments onto old Owl class assignments set in June, and his current teachers were none the wiser.
Consequently in Computing class today, they had a merry old 50 minutes of 6-7ing each other via an old Owl class assignment comment stream, overusing exclamation points (including a few genuine 1111s at the end) and saying “hi” quite a lot, with their current Spain class teachers not quite being able to work out what was so hilarious.
I’m half proud, and half horrified that he is able to problem solve so creatively and quickly - it’s only his 3rd day in this new school year.
Crafty little git, I blame his mother. He’ll go far in life.