Filtering 'level'

[NetmanDH]

Hi guys and girls,

 

I am using Smoothwall as a web filtering solution in our school and wondered what other schools do in the way of filtering - I filter out all the general stuff (porn, terrorism, intolerance, drugs), and leave out everything else (abortion, acohol and tabacco etc.) but then I have some members of staff saying theat the pupils are doing a project on maruajana or the twin towers, so things get blocked. Do people have a really minimal filter setting, or do you really tie things down? Imagine 11-18 year olds (the juniors have a really tight filter). Please try and reply how tight (or not) your filters are, so when I stand up in front of everyone and say 'this is what everyone else does', I'm not talking out of my !?

 

Cheers, and thanks.

[Gaz]

I think you'll get some quite varied responses for this. I, like you have the most important ones blocked.

Adult

Intolerance

Malware and Hacking

Plagarism

Pornography

Social networking

Terrorism

Video sites - Youtube Edu enabled

We also have a number that are customised i.e. only a few sub categories selected.

 

Our students are 16 years+