Should Schools Have To Block Or Filter On The Internet?

Patrick Cloonan, teacher at Manheim School District, reported to Hi-Lite Online that while some websites like YouTube have inappropriate content, it can also have beneficial materials for students. In the text it said, students have better research without web filters. This confirms that students could be asked to do an assignment and the websites that are restricted are not able to be used by those students (“NYT”).

I review the Blue Valley School District Acceptable use policy for student’s K-12. Technology use is important for all students, teacher, parents and school districts in order to provide a safe digital learning environment. Technology gives way to valuable educational experience that all students are entitled to. School districts have the responsibility to provide acceptable use policies for the digital devices, and the Internet provided to students, which is owned by the district. Whenever technologies are brought upon school grounds, or to school activities, even when the technologies are not owned by the school the technologies are still subject to adhere to the acceptable use policies. The intended use of technology in education is to open new learning experiences, benefit the student’s education experience, and create skills for future academic endeavors.

Duff, White & Turner, LLC “ Schools Should Punish Students for Misuse of Networking sites” (Document D). If Schools have dealt with a number of incidents concerning improper use of internet sites should be banned. I believe school computers should be used only for homework and school purposes. The internet being an open network, which includes big Social Networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook of course students are going to pay more attention to that. Schools should restrict all those websites , although there are ways around in which students use to bypass. Schools around the United States have entered into an education code in which it authorizes to expel, suspend, or removal of school. Even though some students might say the school can't get into what they do after or outside of campus. The school can engage in taking charge of conduct resulted in disruption of the school environment. The school may lawfully discipline any student for such

All in all, School administrators should not be permitted to restrict what student can read. Banning books goes against the First Amendment. Book banning takes up time that could be put into bettering our schools. To top it all of, it stunts growth of lesbian and gay youth. If you want to help fight against censorship, you can donate to the National Coalition Against Censorship, or let your administrators know that you will not stand for a violation of your

Tears begin to fall down a child’s face. Her body goes into shock out of fear. Her mother warned her about watching inappropriate content, and there it was, right on her computer screen. This could not have happened though. All she was doing was casually browsing the internet before a pop-up appeared. Although it may seem hard to believe, the major cause of events such as this is the lack of censorship on the internet. Internet censorship relates to the removal of offensive, inappropriate, or controversial content published online. The current problem with the internet is that there are few restrictions on what can be published or viewed. Several sites on the internet only offer a warning about inappropriate content that can easily be

The internet became a very popular and huge way of getting millions of different kinds of materials and information for everyday use in the later 80's early 90's. It became easy for anyone to access millions of different kinds of materials ninety nine percent of which is decent according to our governments standards and one or less percent which is considered to be material the is indecent or harmful to minors.(ABC) These facts maybe deceiving however because there are millions of internet sites so the internet may only be one percent indecent but that means there are thousands upon thousands of sites that are indecent.(ABC) The biggest question is how can we protect our children from these indecent sites? The government believed that

controversial yes so simple. To many they are too restrictive while to others they are not

Censorship in schools may have pros and cons, but most feel that there are mostly

I give the ACLU a lot of credit for protecting the student’s constitutional rights of free speech. The student body should have access and freedom to search and gather information about LGBT issues for assignments, research or simply for self-knowledge. As long as the websites are in good taste and does not contain anything sexual or inappropriate activities that will harm or misinform the students. Furthermore, the school did the right thing of rescinding their action of violating the student’s rights of free speech. They have done a great job of peacefully allowing the websites to be accessible and avoid the federal court to make the decision in favor of ACLU, because they clearly violated a constitutional right.

While elementary and middle schools have obvious needs for restrictions, Internet access at the high school level isn't as black and white. High school students are sensitive to their given rights, yet are officially minors under the law; teenagers are ever nearing adulthood, but are sometimes viewed as immature. So, high school administrators are challenged with designing an Internet policy that meets the educational needs of the students and the moral demands of society. Although software is being designed to "censor" the content of the Internet, student trust and responsibility might be a more reasonable route.

What would you do if you went to your child's school and saw that they were looking at inappropriate material on the internet? Would you react the same way if they were in a public library? Who decides what is okay for your children to view? Who decides where they can view it? What can you do about them being able to view these things? Are there any laws that can prevent this from happening? What are some schools and libraries doing to help prevent children form looking at such material? These are all issues that will be discussed in the next few paragraphs, along with my opinions on the matter.

Students will be able to access more information using the internet now that legitimate sites are no longer blocked. Teacher and school board staff will be pleased to know that by providing providing unfiltered internet access they will save thousands of dollars a year. Students won’t be any more vulnerable to harmful content than they were under the supposed protection of internet filters. Katherine Schulten states that “the majority of students have unfiltered internet access at home and regularly use it when working on homework.”(Schulten). Since most students commonly use unfiltered internet outside of school, there is no reason to believe there would be a problem using it inside of school. Unfiltered internet access will indeed be an asset to staff and students both educationally and financially. If schools choose to provide unfiltered internet access they will be glad to have made the right choice with the benefits that they will

The ability that filters can block web content that is deems inappropriate has been disputed since the software was first introduced. Generally speaking, there are usually two points of arguments that are adjacent to each other on this issue—the claims for or against.

Teachers need to incorporate the use of firewalls, filtering software and AUP’s into the classroom to practice ethical use of technology in the classroom. Firewalls will protect the classroom and home computers from unwanted viruses. The firewall detects when a virus is being introduced to the network and will take measures to keep the virus from infecting a computer. Filtering software is important because it will not allow students to view unwanted material or websites (Shelly, G, Gunter, G, and Gunter, R 2012). Teachers

Censorship can take many forms. While many people may automatically associate censorship with invasion into one’s natural right, most developed countries have passed laws and regulations to limit the objectionable material on the Internet. People who argue for censorship say that it helps stop the spread of dangerous information, and prevents minors from accessing offensive or inappropriate content. Dangerous information can