Silly School Filter

[Crystal Cuckoo]

And what are your school goals exactly? Seems to me someone wants to play flash games during class. Odds are that you have an unfiltered computer at home (as most school filters block this site), and prefer to waste time in class, judging by the vagueness of your wants.

You don't need a computer during school. You can take notes by hand, and school assignments can be done at home. Why not use the school library for resources? You'll find that the articles/books there are a great deal more reliable than that which you will find on the net.

If I'm coming off as a little jaded, it's because I'm in my final year at an Australian public school. For those who are tuned in to Kevin Rudd's school policies, you'll find that all Year 9s are given free netbooks to "work" with, though in reality all they do is play Solitaire and Minesweeper or cracked games during class time. Great investment in the future, eh Mr. Prime Minister?

 

[Not So Tuesday]

And what are your school goals exactly? Seems to me someone wants to play flash games during class. Odds are that you have an unfiltered computer at home (as most school filters block this site), and prefer to waste time in class, judging by the vagueness of your wants.

You don't need a computer during school. You can take notes by hand, and school assignments can be done at home. Why not use the school library for resources? You'll find that the articles/books there are a great deal more reliable than that which you will find on the net.

If I'm coming off as a little jaded, it's because I'm in my final year at an Australian public school. For those who are tuned in to Kevin Rudd's school policies, you'll find that all Year 9s are given free netbooks to "work" with, though in reality all they do is play Solitaire and Minesweeper or cracked games during class time. Great investment in the future, eh Mr. Prime Minister?

I go to school in the great (sarcasm) United States. I go to a private school where I am taught by a group of narcissistic, arrogant assholes who fancy themselves supreme rulers over all, and therefore believe that we, as students, are incapable of thought and need them to spell everything out for us. They block all websites except for approved "legitimate" websites.

This forces us to use radical conservatively biased websites that give us practically no valuable information and force us to spend hours on paper that could be accomplished in half an hour under normal circumstances. Pardon me if I appear as an arrogant little bastard, but I see a problem when I go to class and spend the entire time listening to a teacher rant about how Will Ferril is evil and polluting the minds of the world, but then go on to praise Glenn Beck for the rest of class. This was a period of Earth Science (true story). FML

/rant

 

[Irishhoodlum]

Stop trying to go on sites you aren't supposed to at school. Save them for when you are at home.

Failing that, find a good proxy site and stick with it until your school catches on. Then find another one and repeat the process until school is over.

They fucking blocked wikipedia! Im not trying to look at pr0nz at school, I merely need to be able to do school related projects without having to spend half an hour trying to find school approved sites.

To be fair, Wikipedia isn't really a site you want to be including in your reference list. At my school, they dock you a mark for having it there.

Wikipedia is one of the more credible sites on the internet (not to mention that it's possibly the easiest to navigate). You'd be surprised at the bullshit you find elsewhere.

OT Proxies are pretty easy to find; easier if you're willing to download programs. Are you talking school computers in libraries or personal rented laptops (since it's a private school)?

I go to a fairly liberal Highschool though so maybe it's more secure than I think but considering how stupid they sound it probably isn't.

 

[Marter]

Wikipedia is one of the more credible sites on the internet (not to mention that it's possibly the easiest to navigate). You'd be surprised at the bullshit you find elsewhere.

It doesn't matter how credible it is if you still get a mark taken off for citing it.

 

[Vromnir]

Google Canada normally works, or an equivilent Google site. Google.ca.

 

[Nouw]

OP, there is a thing called telling the Teacher.

My School has WatchDog. Great, a fucking dog that stalks what we're going on. Sounds very family-friendly. Oh well, the only sites that are blocked are gaming and porn I guess. I don't know because I don't go on it. But the plus is that Escapist isn't blocked. Oh yeah!

 

[ethaninja]

Phew lucky I go to TAFE. Sorry man I can't help you. I would suggest trying to google ways. I'm sure there are plenty of youtube videos you can use to your advantage.

 

[KeyMaster45]

Ah school internet filters...brings back the memories it does Being the IT high school in my district we were constantly getting letters from the school board telling our teachers that we were still circumventing their system. They knew we were doing it and they couldn't do a damned thing about it.

Yeah we started off with proxies but they nipped that in the bud real quick. Those of us that actually understood what we were doing started setting up our PC's at home so we could connect to them from school and simply run web browsers from there. Technically same thing as a proxy site, but they were never able to block us. Our comp science teachers were always telling us to stop doing it so the school board would stop breathing down their neck. Problem was they were doing it too and knew if they actually punished us we'd rat them out(considering they're the ones who showed us how to circumvent it XD ).

Ah good times...good times..

 

[foodmaniac]

Well in Australia, or at least in NSW, if you have a TAFE account, then 90% of sites aren't blocked. If you have friends doing a TAFE course, then you can just use theirs. But then again, wikipedia isn't blocked on my school computers, so I don't really need it unless I want to youtube or go on the escapist to watch movies during my free periods.

 

[ohber]

If you need something that works for 99% of web filters, search up tor browser on google, and use the website "torproject". This installs firefox and a program called tor on a flashdrive. I have tried it, and it has no viruses (scan it if you dont believe me) and it works.

 

[DragonBorn96]

In our school, we even lost the ability to use proxies. Our new system reports something to the IT people if you so much type a word you don't like, somehow it works with single letters aswell which I think is odd. And proxy or proxies is on their list of words they don't like. Adding that they filtered Google for us we basically just have a computer that we can't do anything on.