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I might have to disagree a little with that, Mandhatri. I don't have a problem with administrators and teachers being able to access student grades, but I don't think they should be able to have special access to my daughter's Facebook and other students' nonschool related webpages. I think if they can have access to websites like Facebook and Myspace, they should just have the same access as most people, by looking at whatever the owner of that page allows you to see. If an administrator does see something offensive or inappropriate that could relate to school activities, then I think that they could be given temporary special access to find out more about that content.
2. Statement of position
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Well I agree with Mandhatri and BL33K3R, there are some students that do give a bad reputation for a much larger body of students. I don't think the majority of students should suffer because of the poor decisions of some individuals. Macon how would you propose to decide what is "non-educational"? I can understand sites like porn sites should be blocked but what about sites that talk about gun control or terrorism? Should sites like that be blocked because they might be inappropriate? One person or a small group shouldn't be able to decide, "I don't like this, let's block it." A better idea is to maybe have like parents, staff and other people in the city "vote" on sites to block them or not. Block all sites that have at least 60% of the votes for blocking the site. This could be an easy compromise for the people who want to block the internet and who want it open for educational purposes. Of course there are disadvantages because even some educational sites could be blocked because of votes and some non-educational sites might be unblocked. It would be cheaper than my previous idea though. Reply what you think of that idea. I almost forgot, thank you both for quoting me, Mandhatri and BL33K3R.
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Well first of all Mandhatri, it's a lot cheaper than you think compared to what is likely being paid to the person/group just to block sites. There are about 1,750 students currently at Jefferson right now, correct? Each of those students could be given a flashdrive that cost about $5 to make, so about $8,750 for Jefferson, those flashdrives would be reusable. The Network Specialist for Bloomington school probably gets paid around $60,000 a year. That's less than 15% of of his/her salary each year, and the district doesn't have to buy the flashdrives again. Yes, the software would probably cost a lot of money but in the long run it would cost less than hiring someone to go make blocks that can be broken through. I also want to just put a few more details on my previous post, if flagged it isn't instant loss of your flashdrive. It would be investigated by simple emailing the teacher about that student's projects and if the flag was work related then the flag would be dropped. Of course this idea would be tested multiple times before it is widely used and this is just an idea that could be used many years from now.
4. Recognition of counter-arguments
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Well first of all Mandhatri, it's a lot cheaper than you think compared to what is likely being paid to the person/group just to block sites. There are about 1,750 students currently at Jefferson right now, correct? Each of those students could be given a flashdrive that cost about $5 to make, so about $8,750 for Jefferson, those flashdrives would be reusable. The Network Specialist for Bloomington school probably gets paid around $60,000 a year. That's less than 15% of of his/her salary each year, and the district doesn't have to buy the flashdrives again. Yes, the software would probably cost a lot of money but in the long run it would cost less than hiring someone to go make blocks that can be broken through. I also want to just put a few more details on my previous post, if flagged it isn't instant loss of your flashdrive. It would be investigated by simple emailing the teacher about that student's projects and if the flag was work related then the flag would be dropped. Of course this idea would be tested multiple times before it is widely used and this is just an idea that could be used many years from now.
5. Seeks audience identification
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Well I agree with Mandhatri and BL33K3R, there are some students that do give a bad reputation for a much larger body of students. I don't think the majority of students should suffer because of the poor decisions of some individuals. Macon how would you propose to decide what is "non-educational"? I can understand sites like porn sites should be blocked but what about sites that talk about gun control or terrorism? Should sites like that be blocked because they might be inappropriate? One person or a small group shouldn't be able to decide, "I don't like this, let's block it." A better idea is to maybe have like parents, staff and other people in the city "vote" on sites to block them or not. Block all sites that have at least 60% of the votes for blocking the site. This could be an easy compromise for the people who want to block the internet and who want it open for educational purposes. Of course there are disadvantages because even some educational sites could be blocked because of votes and some non-educational sites might be unblocked. It would be cheaper than my previous idea though. Reply what you think of that idea. I almost forgot, thank you both for quoting me, Mandhatri and BL33K3R.
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