Jason Kraus wrote:
> My comment about blocking Wikipedia is not due to quality but rather
> teachers simply don't want to students using it for whatever reason,
> whether
> justifiable or not. I believe that is why it is banned.
>
> But what baffles me is that the open source text book site is blocked
> even
> though California has invested $30 million into development of open
> source
> curriculum/text books in the hopes to reduce the $40 million price tag
> they
> spend a year on text books just for k-8 grades. I found there
> filtering
> policy here: http://www.sdcoe.net/hrt2/css/?loc=filter <-- i think
> thats it
> anyways, and i don't see it falling into any of there categories. o
> and the
> email is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps someone needs to ask why wikipedia is blocked, instead of
conjecturing. They probably use some appliance for blocking. Any 10
year-old probably know of a proxy they can use to get around the
filters.
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