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Our child has one website that uses flash. I've removed flash from all our other computers except the one computer locked down to use just that.

How a school, and vendor, get away with requiring flash in 2017 is beyond frustrating.

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School's online systems tend to be woefully behind the times. Usually online portals and e-textbooks are little more than patronizing nods to the students that have come to accept tech in their lives as a necessity rather than any meaningful attempt at bettering education.

Pearson textbook publisher requires Flash for my kids. So they have Chromebooks for most things, and school-issued laptops for online textbooks.

This madness must stop, but field-tested textbooks are a lot of work. And a lot of $$. Good luck.

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