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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Reading further in the article reveals that the Epic app was returned to the school computers with an opt out for parents to activate to remove it from their kids gadgets (I presume from the school).
I’m fine with this, parents should have this right and it doesn’t diminish others ability to keep access.
Digital libraries only speed up the process of curating, if anyone thinks physical libraries aren’t curated especially school libraries, I’ve got a bridge for sale.
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I've got a bridge for the parent that thinks banning something from their kids will prevent their kids from getting access! Guess what that kid'll do? They'll get what they want to read from another kid whose parents *didn't* opt out.
MY parents wouldn't let me go see The Godfather movie. Highly annoyed, I promptly checked out the book from my CATHOLIC high school library (in TEXAS, no less) and I'll tell you, the book was seamier than the movie! The 'rents would have been horrified!
Now, I also read many a classic from that library. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, Solzhenitsyn, Tolkien, Frank Herbert, and so many, many more. So if my parents had a) found out and b) laid a number on the school, they'd possibly have prevented me from reading any number of great titles.
Give your kids a phone or tablet, you give them the world. I bet most learn how to get past or around parental controls right quick.