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CAT Tracks for October 17, 2013
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW |
Appropriate music to play while reading the article below...
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly
From eSchool News
Teach Kids To Be Their Own Internet Filters
While you were humming and reading...
...while Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut, was teaching her kids to be "filters"...
...the kids were checking out sites like bigdick.com.
Postscript:
The reference above was not a figment of my imagination...
...it was an actual website visited back in the day by some CHS students searching for ways around the District's filtering software.
From the article:
Well, trust me on this...
...Cairo students aren't any different than other students when it comes to exploring the World Wide Web.
Go ahead, Michelle and your fellow ostriches...
...continue to live with your heads in the sand.
That conveniently shifts responsibility to the usual suspects, the classroom teachers. Gives "education reformers" yet another reason to fire their butts when the kids opt for T & A over Trig & Algebra.
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream,
Really do come true.
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
Away above the chimney tops,
That's where you'll find me.
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
"Freshmen watch a welcome video on their first day with the message 'We Trust You.'"
