Friday, October 3, 2008
FREEDOM! At School?
In Mr fisch's latest article, Intellectual Freedom: Where Do You Stand?, he raises many valid questions that have no apparent answer. What are the limits where the school should stop filtering our Internet? Is our system a good one? At many other schools a large amount of sites are blocked automatically, and teachers can request a website to be added. Here at Arapahoe, some sites are fully blocked while others are blocked, but can be bypassed by a teacher's password. Nearly every site with games explicit graphics or any form of entertainment is blocked. We have it much better than most. I believe that our system works, just not very efficiently. I believe it would be much better if the students here at Arapahoe were able to unblock sites, but a log was kept of what sites we unblocked. That way we would have freedom, but would still be supervised and under control.
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