Filtering in School? A Response - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Filtering in School? A Response - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Filtering in School? A Response

A recent post by Mike Gwaltney "Keeping Kids off the Internet – What’s With the Draconian Filtering Policies?" posed some important questions "Is filtering necessary? If so, why filter so aggressively? Is there a way to filter effectively that both protects students and allows them to use the Web to its potential? Aren’t we doing students a disservice by blocking the full internet?"

Here's my response: