How much online supervision is necessary in a high school setting? Where do good intentions cross the line?

Nathan Ringo writes: “I’m a student at Wayzata (Minn.) High School, one of my favorite places to be. I enjoy learning and find almost all my teachers to be agreeable. I’m also a programmer and an advocate of free speech. In that role, my school holds a more dubious distinction: It’s the first place where my interests in computers and my rights were questioned. Like many other school districts, Wayzata puts censorware between students and the internet. However, Wayzata chose to implement an unsavory policy of blocking not just porn, but anything they feel is inappropriate in a school setting. Worse, I could not find out who makes the judgments about what is considered inappropriate.”…

Read Nathan’s well written blog post at Boing Boing, Dec. 3

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