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Finding a Balance in Filtering

It has been a long time since I last posted. I typically post from school after my work hours where I have a lot of my educational resources available for reference. Our district however has expanded the reach of there filtering software to block all Blogger sites because a few of these sites may be inappropriate. I am looking at other solutions, but any hosted service that is primarily for blogs is also blocked. I see a definite need for filtering software, but wiping out a powerful educational tool, because there might be a little swearing on a page is overstepping the bounds. No filtering software can protect from everything, but with a vigilant teacher and appropriate supervision most problems can be eliminated. The filtering software should be set to block only the worst of sites, rather than blocking huge blocks of content where 90% is good and legitimate, and of the remaining 10% most only have a few offensive words here or there.