Friday, February 8, 2008

Content Watch: The Thorn in my Flesh

It's Friday and school is out! I was only at school 3 days this week, seeing that the flu was trying to wake me up and urge me to the bathroom Tuesday morning around 5:15am. I argued with the flu for about 20 mins. I WILL not throw up. I WILL not throw up. I lost that argument and was sick for the next 16 hours. Wednesday was spent recovering, trying to convince my stomach that food was NOT evil and that it was okay to keep things there. I returned to school Thursday, feeling as if I did sit-ups for 2 days straight while missing school. I hurt that bad.

I come back to school to see that the level of filtering on websites has been increased on our computers, which prevented me from using ANYTHING worthwhile for my class. It's SOO frustrating. It has really become the thorn in my flesh. I don't have internet at home, so school is the only place that I can check my email. It won't even let me in to Google or Yahoo. I can't change my settings on this blog because it says there is "Adult/Mature" content on that page and it wants to protect me. WHAT?!??!?!! How in the WORLD is there Adult content on the SETTINGS tab???

Every picture I wanted for my reading chapters, any news websites, any videos for making my classroom "come alive" are blocked! There was even a blocking on the United Streaming Website which the school subscribes to for us to use! It just really makes me frustrated. I know, protecting the kids. I know, I know. We have computer gerus at this school and we haven't figured out that we need to make the kids log in when working on the computer???


Grrrr......

2 comments:

Laura said...

I would have read your blog, except that it came up on my computer "Music/Entertainment" and then "Intimate Apparel" and so I couldn't. Somehow, content watch followed me home!!

jk

Abby said...

Hahahahahhahaa........oh Laura! That's HILARIOUS!