Last Straw (Score 1)

Hey, I go to this same school. And I must say that Bess is one of several things about that place:-( Some of the dumb things that Bess has done over the past year: 1. Blocked several major homework-help sites. B. Blocked my site because of some obscure reference that they interpreted as a dirty joke. 3: Blocked dozens of CJI proxies that could be used to access educational content. 4. Not blocked very many porn sites (at least I have something to do during those boring classes:-) At one point, Bess blocked several sites expressing distaste to Bess, to our school. It blocks a bunch of political sites. It for several days blocked its "Bess can't go there" page, causeing browsers to repeated try to load the block page! Any site that isn't blocked, and is visited by a student is blocked within a few days. And don't get me started about the school! I won't comment on their lack of disciplinary or attendance policy, but I will comment on there technology policy. This year, the district bought 2 sets of new computers. One of them was givin back, because the district discovered that the contract the signed required them to pay. The other set were some of the most powerful systems available at the time cheap enough to put one in every room of over a dozen schools. Then, they bog them down with multiple security programs, two (in some cases 3 or 4) different passwords to enter just to access them, and no way to access those 10 free gigs on the hard drives for student storage. Half the time, the computers crash at around the second password screen. Make it all worse, one of the "technicians" at one of the schools attached notes to the sides of computers with magnets. At least this is better than the computers they used to have... I won't bug you with horror stories of overconfigured security on those things! Now, worse comes to worse, and they sell data about what sites we try to visit. (I say try because 9/10 sites are blocked, and plenty of that last 1/10 are porn) I'm glad I'll be graduating, and won't have to put up with the school, Bess, or the Reign of Kath-ros anymore. (Inside joke. Those who go to our school will understand.)