The Morning Call reports protecting students from their own curiosity — and occasionally from innocent Web searches that lead them astray — has become a pressing problem in some Lehigh Valley school districts that are heavily emphasizing technology in the classroom.
As the number of computers available for students has soared and the Internet is used in class more frequently, so has the number of students trying to access inappropriate Web sites on school computers.
Does a lot of good — not
My school district finally succumbed to a filter last year. It fails often, but that isn’t really the issue.
The organization that runs the thing will not disable the blanket “p*rn” filter for Google Images. I have begged, pleaded. To assuage their guilt, I have typed in “cute baby animals” for students just so they understand they have done nothing wrong by getting the forbidden page warning.
And still, this year I have had the administration suffer the indignity of printing out pix of anatomically correct females, in order to finger a student who found his way to actual p*rn. Sigh