[Yr7-10it] block it all

[Costello, Rob R]

Reading about more filtering - 

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/youtube-ban-for-victorian-schools
/2007/03/01/1172338754827.html

Personally, I think every student should be satisfied with 24/7 access
to the official VELS site, and maybe the curriculum planning guidelines

What more could they ask for? 

Google, blogs, email, flickr, and all such web 2 apps should be banned
by decree

They might be used to communicate - and the risk of communicating is too
high  

I look forward to a world in which every interesting and interactive web
site is finally blocked, and we all have handheld devices, on which we
can access an approved list of 3 sites 

Paper and pen might also need banning, as there are reliable reports of
these media being used for obscene drawing and note passing in class 

Rob 

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