Web filtering is necessary in order to keep students on track and safe while browsing the internet in school, but it is quite necessary that it only blocks things which are absolutely detrimental to the education of students. Other people could argue that web filtering is simply too complicated to efficiently block every possibly profane website. The simple solution to this issue is to have students be monitored more attentively while they are on the computers at school. One of the goals of using filters however, is to reduce the need for direct supervision, while it may seem contradicting to the previous statement, supervision should always be required in some way in a school setting. Supervision is already commonplace in computer labs, as to prevent property damage, and hence the browsing session can be observed in conjunction with the watch for property
Web filtering is necessary in order to keep students on track and safe while browsing the internet in school, but it is quite necessary that it only blocks things which are absolutely detrimental to the education of students. Other people could argue that web filtering is simply too complicated to efficiently block every possibly profane website. The simple solution to this issue is to have students be monitored more attentively while they are on the computers at school. One of the goals of using filters however, is to reduce the need for direct supervision, while it may seem contradicting to the previous statement, supervision should always be required in some way in a school setting. Supervision is already commonplace in computer labs, as to prevent property damage, and hence the browsing session can be observed in conjunction with the watch for property