Awhile ago, when my County blocked Wikipedia. I spend 3 hours a day in Computer Classes (Digital Design 2 and Web Design 2), and since I'm not computer illiterate I tend to finish my projects in way under the time I have in those classes. So, I visit websites. Now, sure, I understand why they would block sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Newgrounds, and others... But, the blocking of Wikipedia just struck me as somewhat... Too far. Especially since the county didn't bother to tell anyone, at least, until I bugged my teacher to send them an e-mail. Their reasoning was pretty much word-for-word what the submitter wrote, that "Wikipedia was unreliable, and inaccurate, and too many kids were using it..." So, instead of just having our teachers inform us not to use it, and let the responsibility rest on the kids, they instead just put a full county-wide block.
Just for reference, you can still read Wikipedia articles by checking the Google Cache, and the AP Computer Science/Calculus teacher at my school set up a proxy/gateway to Wikipedia on his class' website.
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Just out of curiosity, you don't happen to be in Florida, do you? That sounds suspiciously similar to what was told to my teacher.
Awhile ago, when my County blocked Wikipedia. I spend 3 hours a day in Computer Classes (Digital Design 2 and Web Design 2), and since I'm not computer illiterate I tend to finish my projects in way under the time I have in those classes. So, I visit websites. Now, sure, I understand why they would block sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Newgrounds, and others... But, the blocking of Wikipedia just struck me as somewhat... Too far. Especially since the county didn't bother to tell anyone, at least, until I bugged my teacher to send them an e-mail. Their reasoning was pretty much word-for-word what the submitter wrote, that "Wikipedia was unreliable, and inaccurate, and too many kids were using it..." So, instead of just having our teachers inform us not to use it, and let the responsibility rest on the kids, they instead just put a full county-wide block. Just for reference, you can still read Wikipedia articles by checking the Google Cache, and the AP Computer Science/Calculus teacher at my school set up a proxy/gateway to Wikipedia on his class' website.