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Re: WARNING, parents:your child @ school & porn sites said by whocares0:i give up IF you don't UNDERSTAND the problem,then you cannot possibly understand how to solve it,or protect our children No filter can be fully effective in blocking access to porn sites. People who expect schools and libraries to have 100% effective filters in place to do that are simply living in a fantasy world.
Also, what some people call "porn" varies considerably. Some people would call anything they find objectionable, including sex education materials, "porn" and go on crusades for censorship. In the end, nothing can take the place of having the kids themselves well adjusted enough to turn away from truly pornographic stuff when they stumble upon it. The stumbling upon that stuff is inevitable--it is how kids react to it that should be a realistic target for the efforts here, not an impossible sanitizing of the whole world in which they live. | | |
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| claud,Also, what some people call "porn" varies considerably. Some people would call anything they find objectionable,including sex education materials,
understood as you saying good sound argument,,what some people call "porn" varies considerably,
and yes nothing will be done UNLESS parents who care about their child's education ban togeather & to force the pron out of the schools & libraries,
THERE is a time & place for everything but a public school & a library isn't the place for porn
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2 edits | said by whocares0:claud,Also, what some people call "porn" varies considerably. Some people would call anything they find objectionable,including sex education materials, understood as you saying good sound argument,,what some people call "porn" varies considerably, and yes nothing will be done UNLESS parents who care about their child's education ban togeather & to force the pron out of the schools & libraries, THERE is a time & place for everything but a public school & a library isn't the place for porn As in a coalition. You expect everything to be 100% perfect? Nothing is this perfect..and that includes internet filters.
And I think you are acting PARANOID about your children, not everyone who uses the school computers or the library just to look at porn. One image isn't going to damage a HIGH SCHOOL kid in any way, shape, or form.
Also, you can't say you were an angel child when you were in your teenage years either.
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I'm smelling a thread-lock here, but any school or parent can put as much computer-filtering applications they want, but kids will still find a way to access what they're looking for.
Lets forget about Internet porn for a second.
When I was in high school from 1989 till 1993, the Internet really wasn't what it is today. If y'all can remember back that far, you might remember such terminology as "BBS's", "PCBoard", "14,400", "USR Robotics Dual Standard", and so on. Sure, a few people (like myself and some friends) used our 14,400's to dial into a local BBS to download some porn. I also checked the weather, read news, and researched.
After my high school years, I went off to an accredited institution, earning a degree in Economics, hold two jobs right now, and have a wonderful girlfriend and great family life. I turned out just fine, and I'm proud of who I am.
The vast majority of kids when I went to high school didn't even have computers yet, much less were they on the Internet as it existed then. Yet kids still fooled around in the bathrooms, and , people still got pregnant at the ripe old age of 17! Who woulda thunk it?
It's a reasonable assumption to want to filter content in schools for all sorts of reasons, but filtering adult content to "protect the children" is a battle that will always be lost. The argument that "bad kids only look at porn" is something I have an issue with, both personally and professionally.
Use filtering to minimize abuse on school machines and hope for a civil outcome.
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