Re: [OS:N:] Re:School Filtering

[Jason Kohles <jkohles redhat com>]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:11, ekunin wrote:
> I'm surprised the consensus seems to be that school filtering is both
> desirable and necessary. I say it is simply wrong. Censorship is
> hierarchical, a power trip in which one person imposes upon another. What do
> we get from school filtering? All students will be virgins on their wedding
> day? None of them will know anything about sex? They'll learn there are
> sleazy characters out there? That seems a lesson worth learning, more
> practical than anything purveyed in English Lit.
> 
There is a difference between teaching kids about sex, and letting them
spend their lunch at barely-legal-teens-having-sex-with-animals.com.

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Jason Kohles                                 jkohles redhat com
Senior Engineer                 Red Hat Professional Consulting