Every year, our school district issues mac laptops to all students in grades 9-12, for use at home & school. DS got his today - a brand new Apple Macbook G5 and they are giving us a new router next week (hopefully will prevent him from stealing the entire signal wireless in our house!)

I am on the fence about the whole thing. The way they are set up, parents cannot monitor much of what the kids do. They have some sort of filter that supposedly prevents them from going to inappropriate websites (though every year we hear stories of the more computer savvy kids finding ways to beat the filters.) No programs can be downloaded - so parents can't even monitor or restrict time use of the computers. I think it is going to wind up being a PITA making sure he doesn't have in in his room when he's supposed to be in bed, or doing something else. I also do not like the fact that I cannot monitor his IChats & emails like I do when he uses our Mac and PC.

I emailed the computer teacher about my concerns, and he has agreed to let me "test" a parental monitoring program on DS's Macbook - I just have to allow him to install it. However, now I am having trouble finding a good remote monitoring program for MAC!

Can anyone recommend one? It seems like most of the software out there is PC only!