FILTERING IS BAD FOR EDUCATION



An article about Filtering writen by Ted Nellen titled "Bad for Education". This article is describing the filters that are in use by the schools the filters that were designed for limitation access to pornographycal sites in the classroom. In the article the author ridiules the limitations, and the ineffectiveness of the filters. There are different reasons why I agree with the article.

One reason why I agree with the article is, it filters our education. Filtering limits the students with exces on the internet to pornagriphical sites but it also limits the student from visiting some sites that are actualy educational, if the students want to visit a site that is about sex, or about a sexual transmited dessies its blocked for exses. A teacher even complains that sometimes when she wants to visit a educational web site about A.I.D.S. in the school, they are blocked out by the filters. The filters realy don't block out the pornographic sites any way, while working on a project in english class looking for pictures of tongues for hyper text to link to the poem Insident I typed the search word tongue pics and I got a pornagraphical site. The filters block out the wrong sites.

Another reason I think that filtering is bad for education, it has no use in the classroom. The students who use the internet in the class have no time to really visit the pornographic sites, since we are busy working on class assignments, plus in the class room students sit side by side in rows of seats next to each other, if a person wanted to visit a pornography site they wouldn't, becouse for one they would fear of getting caught by the teacher, two they would be too embarrassed to be seen by other on looking students. If a person really wanted to see pornography they would do it on there own time, at there personal stations, not at a school.

These are the different reasons why I agree with the article and, think that the filters are useless, and are getting in the way of education.

For more information about school filters visit http://www.tnellen.com/ted/filter.html

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