Public access to internet logs

[Chris Finer <cfiner@NEWFOUND.K12.NH.US>]

> At 08:38 AM 11/7/00 -0500, Nancy Keane wrote:
>>Pretty scary story out of N.H. today.  The courts have ruled that a fathe=
r
>>does have the right to view the Internet history logs from his children's
>>school district.  He asked for the logs when the school district refused =
to
>>filter the Internet.  He said he wants to be sure that students are not
>>accessing inappropriate sites.
<snip>

Then David wrote:

> I don't find this scary at all. In fact, I like it. If students knew that
> any parent in the district could access the logs, they might just think
> twice before accessing inappropriate sites. In other words, they might ju=
st
> start acting responsibly!
>
>
Why do you assume that our kids aren't acting responsibly?

Chris Finer
Nwfound Regional High School
Bristol, NH, USA

=B3The school nurtures both teamwork and thorny individualism, at once the
readiness to serve and the readiness to resist, for nobody knows ahead of
time which the Good Citizen may have to do." -- Paul Gagnon

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