[NYer]

Ping!

[ConservingFreedom]

Goeler admits that access is provided to liberal websites, but not conservative ones.

No indoctrination in our schools. Move along, now.

[Tax-chick]

Jody Ian looks a little light in the loafers. One suspects personal animus.

And surely Bill is being rhetorically disingenuous in saying that he is surprised at an “educator’s” acting in this way.

(rant ON) What are the students doing on the Internet anyway? We got an excellent education, through college, with no more than a word processor. Get the kids off the freeping computers, and have them read dead-tree text and write with pencils. (rant OFF)

[GreyFriar]

Just look at the Hate that is in the ten commandments! We can’t have children to be taught to hate sin, hate lying, hate stealing, hate murdering (sarcasm)

[GeronL]

leftists being leftists

and they are in charge of the molding of millions and millions of childrens minds

[CA Conservative]

As the person responsible for the content filter at our very large school district, I can tell you that the vendor is not the problem. Yes, sites can be placed in incorrect categories sometimes, but the choices of which categories get blocked and which do not is made by the school district. And the district has the ability to either unblock the whole category, or unblock (or block) specific sites.

The web page for this particular product states the following:

"Granular content filtering capabilities allow administrators to block all predefined categories or any combination of categories. Filtering can be scheduled by time of day, such as during school or business hours. Dell SonicWALL content filtering solutions also enhance performance by filtering out IM, MP3s, streaming media, freeware and other files that drain bandwidth... Administrators can enforce multiple custom policies for individual users, groups or specific category types. Local URL filtering controls can allow or deny specific domains or hosts. To block objectionable material more effectively, administrators can also create or customize filtering databases."

So regardless of their protestations, someone at the school district is responsible for deciding to block those site or that category of sites. If the Vatican web site was being blocked under the category of "Violence/Hate speech", someone at the district had to deliberately put it in that category, because no content filter vendor I have seen (and I have evaluated many over the years in the course of my job) would ever categorize it as such - they would risk losing too much business, especially from parochial/Christian schools.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[annalex]

It is foolish to expect a government school to actually teach something.

[narses]

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