Should Schools Use Internet Filters?

Have you ever been connected to a school network or internet and encountered a filter? Of course you have! This makes you angry because you were trying to do an honest mans work and your websites have been blocked due to the overprotection of your superiors! According to the The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), ninety four percent of United States schools use internet filters. Students should not be required to use internet blockers because: they often restrict access to websites that can be used for academic purpose, they stop kids from learning responsibility with the web, and instead diverting the students attention away from games and other sites, it diverts their attention to learning how to get around these filters. Schools should not use internet filters because they often restrict access …show more content…
Their are many bad things on the internet that children should be kept away from until they are old enough to know about them. There is pornography, information on drugs, social media; which can be used for evil as well. These things should be kept away from children but there is also many good things on the internet. There is a lot of information that can educate and increase someones knowledge. But if we restrict access to all these sites and things throughout high school and then when a kid goes to college suddenly, there is no filters, he or she has no idea how to handle it and you soon have a college dropout. You have to teach children how to act and use the internet, not take it away completely. A good analogy is this: a mother holds her child 's hand every time he crosses the road, but then suddenly, the mother is gone and the child has to cross the road by himself. He doesn 't know how so he gets hit by a car. This is the same way with filters. You can 't block everything out completely, you have to gradually introduce everything to