I can recall making a hypertext link for one of the poems given to me in class. After all of my work of searching and typing I came to find out that the link wouldn't work because it was filtered. I find it strange that students can't go to a website which will provide us with information for our current project but its easy to access pictures of some guy named Buck Naked.

Filters are a great idea in essence but the way they are used in school defeat's the whole purpose. Instead of blocking websites which are perverted or inapproriate they prevent us from viewing sites to benefit our work. Filters in a way tell us students that we can't be trusted in performing our studies effectively without taking a glance at something perverse.

My solution to the filtering dispute is to have teachers monitor students in class just as they would in a normal classroom atmosphere. Not that I feel that we as young adults need someone looming over us as if we are toddlers but there is always one immature child who does look at something they should be looking at in the privacy of their own home. I feel that filtering