I don't have an opinion about all of this, just putting out the list. The following things are filtered or banned for the students. Rules for faculty are different:
- Cellphones, except in the hallways between classes and at lunch.
- and iPods, music players- all gadgets, really.
- except maybe a graphing calculator but I'm just being snarky. What are we going to do when the only calculator is on an iPhone? Insist that he spend another $120 for TI?
- Bad sites
- Youtube, etc.
- Music site - Playlist but not Pandora.
- Wordpress and all other blogs, forums, etc.
- Google accounts - documents, calendar, Gmail, etc. Access to personal email accounts is blocked and the school doesn't provide one at the school domain.
- sports of any kind. Averages and percentages? I have to collect and save the info in a Word Document.
- gambling (including the state lottery commission - have to find my probability info elsewhen)
- Games, except those tech doesn't know about. Coolmathgames.com is okay. Why? Not sure.
- Music sharing, torrent, limewire, napster, Rhapsody,
- but not Apple iTunes or Pandora.
- Hats, hoodies, even costume hats at Halloween.
- Bare feet in the grass outside.
- Backpacks (when the mood strikes -- currently, they're allowed)
- Oh, and all the dress code violations.
Might be banned list
- USB drives, especially .exe files on said drives.
What have I forgotten? Plenty, I'm sure. Let me know how you feel - is there something that you think should be allowed but isn't or that your school allows but mine doesn't?
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