What do Tennessee and Indiana Public Schools Have in Common?

[Natasha]

What do Tennessee and Indiana Public Schools Have in Common?

http://www.tips-q.com/857841-what-do-tennessee-and-indiana-public-schools-have-common
4/23/09

Both school systems use web content filtering software from Education Networks of America and both school systems preclude students from visiting LGBTQ websites. ENA describes this filter in their promotional materials as follows:

Sites that provide information regarding, support, promote, or cater to one's sexual orientation or gender identity including but not limited to lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender sites. Sites under this category may include adult content, chat capabilities and personals.

[Michelle.]

"Sites under this category may include adult content, chat capabilities and personals."

On those grounds I must say that I can't blame them.

For everysite like Susans, tsroadmap, etc theres probably 50 with content that give the GID community a bad name.

Its also interesting that states like Utah have the highest number of porn site subscriptions per capita and states like Vermont are amongst the lowest.

[Alyssa M.]

I do blame them. Make compurs with web access easily visible to the passers-by, supervize, and don't filter.

By the way, Michelle, Susan's does include chat capabilities. And many local newspapers offer personals, too.

[tekla]

Its also interesting that states like Utah have the highest number of porn site subscriptions per capita and states like Vermont are amongst the lowest

What that statistic really says, is not at all what you think it says.

Actually the SF Bay Area is one of the lowest too, however its way up top when it comes to buying sexual services (porn, hookers, strippers, etc.).  Utah buys a lot of porn on-line because there is no other way to get it in Utah, sort of driving to Nevada.

Make compurs with?  ?  Spell checkers?

Actually I'm all in favor of the schools putting very strict limits on what kids can see and do on-line, on the school property.  If you want to let your kids do other things, buy them a computer and a net connection and do what you will.  But schools have a different responsibility.  I'm sure you would find this stuff on almost all school computers, not just those in Tennessee and Indiana.

[Alyssa M.]

To be clear, I'm all in favor of strict limits, but I think it's better if it's done through supervision rather than filtering software.

And I haven't used spellcheck in years, except the built-in Unix shell command (or the emacs macro for that command). I spell much better as a result; spellcheck is a crutch, and annoying to boot. Kids these days, never learning to proofread... I've seen a few tyops [sic] in your posts on occasion as well, by the way.

[tekla]

Schools don't have the time, nor staff to supervise on that level.  I'm just in favor of something called parenting, and it ought to be up to the parents what children are exposed to, not the school.

Of course if its like most things public schools do, well, if they taught sex ed like math, we'd be a nation of virgins.