Lil_G135

A couple months ago, my school magazine let out an article about schools blocking websites due to various reasons. So far my school blocks Myspace, LiveJournal, hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Vibe, Newgrounds, Gmail, Xanga, Playboy, Miniclip Games, Ebaumsworld, KKK-related, IGN, and Gamespot.


If you can't think of what to say on the matter, some starter questions ^.^ :

Do you believe schools have the right to block websites from students?

At some places students are not allowed to access email acounts while teachers are. Do you find this kind of rule fair?

Does your school block out websites? Describe the kinds of sites they've banned.What kind of response has come about to these? (yours and other peoples')

What kinds of websites do you feel shouldn't be under such bans? Why?

I'll answer after a few people respond

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!SilentAssasin

Ugh, my school blocked almost everything. But thanks to proxies, it doesnt matter to me!

I think that schools shouldnt block websites

HolderOfTheDarkChalice

i think its a pretty smart idea myself blicking porn site like playboy ,and off topic places that aren't school oriented it keeps the kids focused on school stuff.
my self when i was in school the computer had just been made and only certain schools used them. so i had a frist hand exeperince in the with computer.
of course there wernt as fast or as good as the ones today though.
we only hade apple tandy's and texas instruments with format disk's with little dot's and stuff. oh umm yea back to your problem the school are doing the right thing by blocking some sites from kids. though i agree kids should be aloowed certian pages for educational stuff like CNN.com or something along those lines
but the idea of kids neding to surf the web when they should be doing school work is silly im sorry to say . but this is just my thought

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fayt lingod

well, with certain software and knowledge of my teachers' passwords it really doesn't affect me at all.

i log in as the headmaster instead of a student.

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LostToDarkness

thats really messed up even the part with the teachers being the only ones able to email
i mean they can be doing anything on their computers and the principal wouldnt give a crap

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fayt lingod

i know, but when the principal gets in trouble for being on anime online during school....

that will be fun this year, last year it was runescape.

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SasuraiHell

psssh, its like madetory for a school to have protective software.,
if its gaming or chat(which even forums are counted) are not allowed to be accessed at school because, well you gotta study end of arguement .

but most of the time i think the school boards do it out of spite, while they're there working hours on end on assignments, there we are having fun., how could they not get jealous??,

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lovejam

Schools should block certain sites. The schools budget pays for and maintains the computers and if blocking sites is the only way to prevent viruses and weird downloads by stupid kids then so be it. If kids want to look at something that's blocked at school...then they should use their computer at home

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Sarlinari

I agree. You're in school for a reason xD I can understand if you're in the Computer Room during your break and want to visit a Forum or whatever, but during lesson hours i think you should be concentrating on the work (or at least attempting too xD can't say it always works lol).

And porn etc should definately remain blocked, if people want to look at porn they should use their own personal computer >>; Not the schools.
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People died from viewing myspace [/quote]

well no, it's not like that what I mean is that the people on myspace wanted to meet the other person in real life so they decided they will and when that happened the person got killed because they got tricked, yea that's how it happened thats what I think happened. so thats why teachers blocked that site thinking it's really that bad.

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