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[Emax]

"So I rebelled because there was no economic loss when other computers were available."

Oh - I see - you were revolting.

Yes, you were.

[tahoeistruckin]

you kids don't need to be on myspace ,face book, or other website while your in school. Read the books givin to you bY the school. Listen to what the teachers have to say.

For most of the older generation here, we didn't have it as easy as you kids have it now days in school. Hell it was 1981 my high school got their first computer , and it was used in the attendance office for record keeping.
cell phones,pda's laptops in school, should be a nono, checked at the door. If not only allow them to be used for class work. Ya don't need the distractions. How will you grow up and become a tower monkey or seater and greeter? lol

[skierdude9450]

My school's filter isn't that bad. Of course we don't have youtube, facebook, myspace, and anything having to do with games, porn, drugs, alcahol etc. At least we still have wikipedia, for now. It isn't quite foolproof, though. I can just type in youtube-movie into google and link right to it.

And if you really want to get onto myspace, you can always pick up the signal from the Starbucks across the street, and they have a much looser filter.

This post has been edited by skierdude9450: 26 October 2007 - 09:21 PM

[EagleAce]

Tahoe's right! Even when I was in high school in '84-'88 the only place that had computers was the office and the computer lab, and those were dinosaurs! No cell phones, no internet, no pda's--NADA! Sheesh, the CD player was considered high-tech, and if you had one you were considered rich! and we were restricted to the kind of music we could listen to--no beer, profanity, or drug content.

[Emax]

They allowed us to bring hammers and chisels into class. Though I suppose they could have been used as weapons, we needed them to write on the stone tablets.
Man - passing notes back and forth was a real workout.

[EagleAce]

HAHAHAHA! Nice! That warmed my day, Bud!

[poloxskier]

We didnt have open access to to a computer lab until high school, the extent of the computers in the school for my elementry school was the office and a lab of Apple IIC's that we were able to go to for a class once a week for an hour to play basic learning games. Middle school was the same situation, we had very limited access. In highschool the computer lab and network was overseen and maintained mostly by a group of students that included myself. We recieved two credits per semester for doing that as well as periodicly teaching some classes on basic computer usage and useage of microsoft office.

[Snoqualmie guy]

Our school blocks nothing... so far. Some districts put up blockers on their internet to make sure the computers are being used for school purposes only.

[brad82]

Im a technician at my school so I get unfiltered everything