Ok to respond to the idiots trying to remove "Bess-proxy"

It will not happen. Period. We (technology department) were told by the Board to install an internet filter.

Bess is administered by a company called N2H2, a national corporation. We payed them for a server. We put it wherever it's needed. (there are actually two, one at the district office, one in the telecom building at the bethel campus. That one serves Shining Mt, BJH, BHS and Transportaion.) The server uses their software and queries the N2H2 people's server about a site before you can go there. They maintain the servers, and the server puts a little ad bar at the bottom. But not for in district servers.

We do not pick which sites are blocked, just the categories.

You can scream and yell all you want, but there is nothing to be done. People can say "public access" all they want. But it's a liability to the district, and we don't fall under the same laws as libraries do.

So the answer is: get used to it.

"Bess" is here to stay, you should be glad you even have internet access at school.