**** School District, Here my roar.

Well, this has been a very long time coming.

Let me start by saying, My school district, is being very moronic. They are blocking sites left and right.

They even blocked their own Effing website! If you do not put WWW in front of the URL you are redirected to the "*SD BLOCKED PAGE"

There are so many things I could say right now that would very much please the Annonamous of the internet. However I cannot comply with that request, because this is a homework blog. Enough said. I will censor myself.

Anyways, so I'm going to go somewhat off track here.
We're reading the book Farenheit 451. For those who haven't read it.

Imagine a futuristic soceity, books are banned, and by banned we mean are burnt to non-exsistance. There is very few smart people; and the protagonist "Guy Montag" is a fireman, and in this soceity "Firemen" burn the books. He realizes through a girl he meets, that if his wife died, he wouldn't cry; it'd be just like someone on the street died. Marriage is just a social obligation, not something meaningful. Something inside of him clicks when he watches a woman burn herself, along with an library of books; she had the option to leave before they burnt the books; yet she didn't want to. That riles him up pretty bad. He actually starts crying, something unfathomable to him, why was he crying for that woman? While he was at her house, to burn the books. He took one, turns out it's the bible. His boss, the Captian comes over the next morning because Montag didn't show up for work. They have a very long conversation. One of the things that The Captian points out is that "Don't step on anyone's toes, you'll make them unhappy" and he reflects on how this soceity is a utopian soceity.

Now comapre that with the district censoring the webpages?!

They're trying to please everyone. Not the students per say, but the parents. You cannot make the parents angry, because that creates conflict. And we cannot have conflict in this perfect world they are trying to create!

However, history, and this book. Tells us that we cannot achieve a perfect soceity. Not everyone can be happy... When you please the parents by controlling what their children can access on the
internet... you piss off the students.

And my other point! Why can't teacher's manage their own classroom's by them selves?! They don't need the district to intervien. Well, In some classrooms maybe, but really?! A teacher with computers in the room should organize the room so that they can easily see everyone's screens. Or at least the "high risk" students, that they figure may do something bad.

So, soon I'm going to write out my first contract... it will be editable, by others. Comment on it to add articles, and then send me your name for this petetion. If I get over 100 names, I may do something with this... as in send the link. $50 says they block access to my blog.


So without furthur adieu, here is my list of *SD banned websites, and/or services:
*note this will be updated as I come upon blocked websites* and because so many (4) of my readers are in the same district, send me websites that are blocked that you've seen*

- Meebo
-Google Images
-Myspace
-YouTube
-Flicker
-Twitter
-Facebook
-DevianArt
-StumbleUpon
-Mispelling a web address
-Runescape

List will grow on!