School Censorship

Currently our school has extreme censors in place on all computers, including teachers. These censors filter through every website the computer attempts to bring up and if it finds a single word or image the school decides is inappropriate the entire site is blocked. I understand the concern here. Parents don't want children looking at certain images or words and school administrators don't want students looking at innappropriate things on school computers. But the censors are out of hand when they limit our ability to learn at school. I honetly use a computer for everything, research for class, college applications, scholarships...everything. When these things are not available at school it seriously hurts our ability to learn or make progress on things such as college apps.

I sympathize with the need for some censors. There are somethings that should not be viewed at school that surely would be if there were no censors in place. Our censors our just way out of hand and limit what is possible to do at the school. The computers and the internet should be a doorway to knowledge and be an immense tool to assit the school. Instead we have just the opposite...