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[ NNSquad ] Schools' Web-Filtering Efforts Have Detractors
Schools' Web-Filtering Efforts Have Detractors
http://j.mp/rqHgo5 (New York Times)
"Similarly, New Trier High School stopped blocking many sites this year
after teachers voiced concerns that the filtering had grown
oppressive. Entire categories of Web sites had been blocked,
including those that involved games, violence, weapons, even
swimsuits, said Judy Gressel, a librarian. "It just got to the point
that it became hard to conduct research," she said, adding that
students could not read sites about, say, military weapons for a
history paper. Deven Black, a librarian at Middle School 127 in the
Bronx, also said that filters had blocked a range of useful Web sites.
YouTube and personal blogs where educators share resources can have
value, he said. "Our job is to teach students the safe use of the
Internet. And it's hard to do that if we can't get to the sites.""
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--Lauren--
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