for once i completely agree with a teacher

For my education blog this week i read More Thoughts On Filtering on the Fisch bowl. This is the first time a actually agreed with something a teacher commented on. I have always thought the filters on school websites a little bit extreem and they get really annoying sometimes. I also agree that the block on video sites like Google video and Youtube are unnecessary. They should at least allow certain videos aloud to be viewed just to make sure people can use the website but not watch anything profane. I think it should be the teachers decision what on the school computers is blocked since they are the people who monitor it not the district. I'll say this as an example but I tried to look things up on the human body for biology in 8th grade and every site I looked up it had block (it was really annoying since my computer was broken) and I had to go to another public library to do my homework. I don't know if the computers at Arapaho use the filter so harshly but that's how I will state my opinion, filtering of to many sites is annoying and it can make it really hard to do certain assignments, and since I'm sure a lot more people then me like getting homework done before they get home so they can hang out the filters can really be a problem. I do think that teachers should still block sites like myspace and game sites but Youtube and certain other websites we can use to help us in school and if their blocked then we cant use them, and a lot of times when we have to do simple assignments online for homework we wont do them at home because we forget. So I think at least they should unfilter websites if they would ask us to get on them or if they ask to go web searching so when we find a good site we could actually get on it.