Michael Moore = questionable or profane language?

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kneelbeforezodkneelbeforezod
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
A friend of mine is a junior high school teacher here in NY. She was on email to another friend talking about how Bowling for Columbine (which has an accompanying teachers guide / lesson plan) has just been designated as inappropriate teaching material by the NY board of education. In the email, which she sent from a computer at her school, wherever she typed 'Michael Moore' or 'Bowling for Columbine' the text was replaced with a [Removed: questionable or profane language] tag.



Now its one thing for the board of education to decide that it does not want kids studying Bowling for Columbine (it has an R rating for showing a scenes of actual gun violence)...but it seems pretty odd that they won't even allow this to be discussed in an email between a teacher and another adult.



What do you think?

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    The dept of ed (no more BOE) has very strict filtering in both email and web. It may be a bit over the top but it's required.



    It is a bit odd that they would filter Michael Moore as in the name itself but, everything goes through the same filters so I guess they don't want research or students looking him up while in school.
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  • Reply 2 of 11
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    btw, this is only if you use Dept. of Ed. email accounts of course.
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  • Reply 3 of 11
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by applenut

    ...I guess they don't want research or students looking him up while in school.



    I really can´t thing of one good reason for that.
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  • Reply 4 of 11
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    That is truly bizarre. There's nothing like an education establishment being involved in censorship of faculty.

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    I can understand filtering web sites from student access. But deleting words in faculty e-mails? Dumbest thing I've heard in a while.
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  • Reply 5 of 11
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Anders

    I really can´t thing of one good reason for that.



    you'd be surprised how much is on the restricted list.
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  • Reply 6 of 11
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by kneelbeforezod

    A friend of mine is a junior high school teacher here in NY. She was on email to another friend talking about how Bowling for Columbine (which has an accompanying teachers guide / lesson plan) has just been designated as inappropriate teaching material by the NY board of education. In the email, which she sent from a computer at her school, wherever she typed 'Michael Moore' or 'Bowling for Columbine' the text was replaced with a [Removed: questionable or profane language] tag.



    Now its one thing for the board of education to decide that it does not want kids studying Bowling for Columbine (it has an R rating for showing a scenes of actual gun violence)...but it seems pretty odd that they won't even allow this to be discussed in an email between a teacher and another adult.



    What do you think?



    i think you're friend is lying to you.



    I had my mom send me an e-mail with Michael Moore Bowling for Columbine as the text.



    came through fine and she used her dept of ed email address



    Quote:

    From: "*********** (*********)" <*******@nycboe.net>

    Date: Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:17:53 PM US/Pacific

    To: <applenut@uclink.berkeley.edu>

    Subject: test



    Here goes!

    Michael Moore

    Bowling for Columbine



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  • Reply 7 of 11
    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by applenut

    i think you're friend is lying to you.



    I had my mom send me an e-mail with Michael Moore Bowling for Columbine as the text.



    came through fine and she used her dept of ed email address



    Could the filter be an inbound filter? See what happens if she sends it to herself.
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  • Reply 8 of 11
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BR

    Could the filter be an inbound filter? See what happens if she sends it to herself.



    well, I emailed her and wrote in the email...email me back Michael Moore, Bowling For Columbine



    and she understoof it so I assume it went through



    she's not at work anymore so I cant have her try it anymore for today
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  • Reply 9 of 11
    kneelbeforezodkneelbeforezod Posts: 1,120member
    My friend certainly wouldn't bother lying it...and I'm pretty certain the message in question was sent by her to a Yahoo account.



    I'll ask her for more details later...
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  • Reply 10 of 11
    kneelbeforezodkneelbeforezod Posts: 1,120member
    Okay - I found out what the deal was, and it seems that I got the story half wrong. She was emailing from a web based account, and when she clicked send instead of the regular 'email sent to...' page loading, the removed page came up.



    There was no actual profane language.
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  • Reply 11 of 11
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BRussell

    Dumbest thing I've heard in a while.



    Good one. I´ll remember that.
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