The schools must have restricted internet access in case the students pull up porn or some wacked out site. Sometimes the blocks go too far. Ours won’t bring up anything related to “rock” so forget about doing a science report. I can understand why blogs aren’t allowed and it’s easier on them to make a blanket decision rather than make exceptions. You can bet your school has a staff member who does nothing but monitor every site your kid visits.
I’ve never heard of a college being restrictive.
No, they’ve got something else to block porn. This same English teacher set aside that filter so her class could do social media activism, trying to get a former teacher to be able to see Obama in person (he was going to go to the inauguration but was in a car collision and couldn’t go). So the kids went to porn Youtubes. They wouldn’t stop when my son told them it was distracting and they needed to stop or else he would report them. So he reported them and HE got into trouble for it...
This is just for search terms. Instead of letting the kids use Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc, they have to use these 3 search engines. SIRS, eLibrary, and one other that I always forget. He did 3 different subjects for his papers (No Child Left Behind, nature v nurture, and Gun Control), and he couldn’t find factual data for ANY of those subjects. Couldn’t even find DOJ crime statistics or CDC cause-of-death statistics, for instance. Why would they censor out DOJ or CDC web pages from the search? It was ridiculous.