I am bummed. This afternoon, I had a few spare minutes and I wrote a great blog post about how zombified the students and staff are this week due to state testing. I even managed to use the word shambling, which of course HAS to describe the way zombies walk! I went to add a picture at the bottom of the post, and poof! the filter at my school ate my post. I couldn't get it back because it hadn't autosaved the way it does here at home.
I hate that darn filter. Even though the teachers have a password that can bypass it, it's still annoying, and depending on the web browser I use, the override times out. It's annoying and inconvenient. I get why schools, especially junior high schools would want to keep kids from looking at naughty stuff, but sometimes the filters go too far. For example, students in my district can't search the word "music" without triggering the filter. Even if they're doing a research project on music from different historical eras, doesn't matter. We have to block that. Breast cancer is another no-no search term.
So I feel a bit like the cranky "Get off my lawn" lady tonight.
But I DID learn a lesson... when writing a blog post at school, write it in Pages then copy and paste it into blogger when I get home!
Fliters are necessary gate keepers and schools have to provide them, but I agree they can be very frustrating. You'll be happy to know the GB students aren't zombified. They are skipping and happy to have opportunities to play in the snow when recess comes around. :-)
ReplyDeleteSo sad that schools are still in the digital dark ages! They need to open the flood gates!
ReplyDeleteSo frustrating! I always compose in Pages to avoid that very problem. While your shambling zombies are a great image, it's sad to think about. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteCatherine
Some of the filtering and ways web pages respond makes me crazy, too. You are NOT alone.
ReplyDeleteUGH! Sorry this happened to you! Our filter is getting better, but for a time, sites like Crayola and PBS Kids would come up as blocked. Just doesn't make sense sometimes!
ReplyDeleteSo frustrating! Our district blocks tons and tons of stuff, and sometimes it gets really frustrating. We have an override too, but I'm always afraid I will get in trouble for using stuff that has been blocked.
ReplyDeleteI read this on my mobile and then forgot to come comment...
ReplyDeleteI'm so exhausted by our school filtering, too. So many things - like publisher tumblr sites - are blocked for us. When we ask they just say "no"... it's nuts!