Which school board your child attends determines the level of WiFi and social media access.
The largest school board in Canada, the Toronto District School Board, has shut off access to several platforms - Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix - because of capacity issues.
Their IT staff calculated those 3 services gobbled up 20-percent of the boards Internet bandwidth.
In Windsor-Essex the 2 largest board have very different philosophies regarding the internet and social media.
The Greater Essex County District School Board has been investing in expanded capacity for about a decade.
Spokesperson Scott Scantlebury says there are no limitations for bandwidth: "all elementary schools have a minimum of one mega-byte of capacity and all high schools have one giga-byte of capacity so it's not an issue for us and Snapchat and Instagram are not blocked"
Scantlebury says the internet and WiFi are integral to learning at the board with programs like Bring Your Own Device we encourage students using their devices to do things such as research.
At the Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board there is more limited access because of capacity questions.
Spokesperson Stephen Fields says they shut off Snapchat 3 months ago because of internet slowdowns: "we were discovering the use of Snapchat and some other applications were creating too much of a strain on our board's resources and our bandwidth capacity there's a finite amount of resources out there and a finite amount of bandwidth capacity and obviously our priority as a board of education is making sure we're using that capacity the best we can"
Both boards have WiFi access in all schools.
Netflix and other similar streaming platforms are banned in both systems, but it's due to copyright restrictions.