The students tried, but every single link turned up the same page: a picture of a padlock.
None of it was available to us, Aleeza said.
The site was completely blocked.
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She said her teacher scrambled to pivot and fill the 90-minute class with other activities.
That investigation found school districts blocking access to sex education and LGBTQ+ resources, including suicide prevention.
It also found routine blocking of websites students seek out for academic research.
About one-third of students said yes.
Aleeza would have said yes, after her experience with Telemundo.
When she was taking a debate class, she ran into the blocks regularly while researching controversial topics.
Fully three-quarters of teachers who responded to the recent survey said students use workarounds to access an unfiltered internet.
Laird found this number striking.
About half said information about sexual orientation and reproductive health is blocked.
For students like Aleeza, the blocking is frustrating in practice as well as principle.
The amount that theyre policing is actively interfering with our ability to have an education, she said.
Often, she has no idea why a website triggers the block page.
Aleeza said it feels arbitrary and thinks her school should be more transparent about what its blocking and why.
We should have a right to know what were being protected from, she said.
This article wasoriginally published on The Markupand was republished under theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeslicense.
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