Filters?!

Its probably safe to assume that each and every one of us grew up with filters in our schools. Sometimes these filters may have prohibited us from doing our research for a health class or something along those lines, and we hated it. But did you ever consider why those filters were put into place? At some point someone must have come across something on the internet that is definitely not suitable for children to see and thought that we needed to protect our children from that content.

I know that there are plenty of ways to get around filters, which may be somewhat useful for kids in high school, for projects for class. But if we take down those filters, do we really want to put children at risk of coming across X rated content or other content that is just not suitable for the minds of children. If children came across this content, it could potentially effect them for life and in return, effect the future generations.

Overall, I believe that filters are a must in schools with younger children to keep them out of harmful content. And in schools, we are looking out for the future generations, so why wouldn't we want to continue protecting them from inappropriate internet content.