Internet Filter says BFing Page is R-Rated

[art_teachermommy]

I'm in a state of SHOCK! Not that this is a huge deal in the scope of things...but I'm just shocked. I tried to Wikipedia "let down" for breastfeeding...and our school's computer network blocked the site. The reason said "R-Rated"



When did breastfeeding become R-Rated?!!!!!

[babylove2007]

The word "breast" doesn't make it through net-nanny filters. My mom is also a high school teacher and she tried to research "breast cancer" and it got blocked; also when I had emailed her about breastfeeding, she never got the email.

[art_teachermommy]

interesting...

[Twilight]

Our school filter ends up blocking a lot of things that are not R-rated... perhaps if some suspicious words are in the source of the page, even if they're not visible, the site gets blocked.

About the wikipedia page, I can sort of see the point, unfortunately I know what my junior high boys would be doing all study hall if they could go to the library and look at boobies... even if they were lactating boobies. I can see the point of blocking some web sites from a school just because they are distracting in a learning environment.

[marisa724]

When I was a school library we had a similar filter. We had the option of submitting specific sites to the computer administrators to be "unblocked", or in the case of a research project that required a large number of kids who were well supervised, we could have the filters "taken down" for a specific block of time and then replaced once our class period was over.

It's not ideal, and believe me as a librarian any censorship issue is troubling, but it's an understandable thing in a school with ages 5-15 (the age of our oldest 8th grader) and open access to library computers during free times.

[TattoMomK]

The irony of this is that the majority of adolescent boys who would want to see breasts of the porn-variety online would put "Boobs" or "Tits" into the search engine! I doubt "breasts" would be the first adjective they would search....
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[art_teachermommy]

I'm with you...I totally understand because of the jr. high boys and things get blocked with a blanket censor of sort. I was just shocked to see "breastfeeding" with "R-Rated" beside it. My first thought was how could they!!
Anytime Bf'ing has come up in class (student initiated...I've had girls ask if I still bf DS) the guys are usually ready for the subject to change fast.

[SashaBear]

I caught a teenage boy looking at a breastfeeding book in the corner of the library.