Dwayne Turpin, director of grounds and buildings for Oshkosh schools in Wisconsin was reassigned this summer after it was found he inappropriately used his computer.
The Northwestern reviewed the IP records of Mr. Turpin's computer and reported that it had been used to access inappropriate content including many adult websites, as well as blogs that contained adult content.
The computer did have a filter, as required by law. Administrators in the district admit that filters can't catch everything, and say that the best help is constant adult supervision.
The filter allowed the district to create its own settings of what is and isn't blocked. Blogs however were not blocked; these often serve as gateways to adult content. Video and photo sites like YouTube had been visited 3,000 times on Mr. Turpin's computer.
Other districts reported using other types of protections, some of which are quite expensive.
Given the recent example of a 16-year old Australian boy breaking the government's $84 million filter, you think we'd learn. Filtering technology is simply a band-aid (and often a porous one at that) for the flood of pornography that exists on the Internet. We need better strategies and more options for protecting our children - whether at home or at school - from Internet pornography.
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