kma- You are too funny!!
SHC- you do your best and the school does their best. That's all you can do. Is there really a shortage of people visiting those sites that they have to trick you into going to them? Face it, there are plenty of adults that will find them all on their own.
It's just sad.
The porn sites are something else--somehow they got a hold of my email, and I clicked on the message thinking it was something else, and AI YI YI--I couldn't get out! Pop ups upon pop ups, and boy--some of those people aren't just flexible--they're very "accomodating" as well! Even when I tried to reboot I couldn't get rid of them! Eventually I had to get (ironically!) my friend's 15 year old son over to get rid of it, and make sure it wouldn't happen again!
To be honest I'm not sure what our school does about it because my son is too young to have access yet, but I do know they have to sign a waiver, as do the parents, that if they get caught they lose all priveleges for the rest of the year. That mom that freaked out better save her energy. The world isn't perfect, nor is the school going to be able to protect her kids from every evil. You do our best, and take it from there!
And to be real about it, we have multiple computers at home and we don't have the filters they have at my kids schools. My kids are much more likely to find bad stuff surfing their home computer.
What's scary is that supposedly we have all kinds of filters on there but we're getting more! It's not that the kids necessarily were SEARCHING for it but stumbled upon it just like I stumbled upon it at a gardening website.
Shelly
We have a child lock system in the computer lab. A child can use any search engine but if the lock thinks there is something bad then it kicks the internet off. For example I would have to turn off the lock to do my geocities web page because it supposedly had gay and sex somewhere on that page.
