Kathie's right, school's use filtering software that is loaded onto the server so the network people need to get involved. This is a big deal and there's lots of informationn out there as to what other schools are using. (Some things can be set at the operating system and browser level, too.) The technicians can configure the software in a variety of ways. For instance, ours blocks out most things of a sexual or gambling nature. It also leaves an audit trail.

Of course, sometimes legitimate things get blocked, too. We can't download the application for charitable bingo (for Spring Fling) at school because it's on the Texas Lottery Commission's site. And "lottery" is one of the blocked phrases, so the computer won't go there.

I know this is a serious issue, but sometimes there a funny parts, too. This year we had two boys try to access some adult sites and got caught. (Someone had given them some addresses to try, but the filter stopped them.) When the principal review the computer logs, she saw they had tried to go to a particular site and then to a fishing site (which came up). She couldn't understand why they were going back and forth into a site about FISH when they were obviously looking for adult sites.

Turns out that as well as lacking judgement, the boys could also use a spelling refresher. There were going to: www.stripersonline.com/

Then again, maybe it's good that 9 year olds don't know how to spell "strippers".

Our kids don't have access to the internet. If they get on the computers it's for learning games/AR tests... Now the staff does have access to the internet (I have no clue how it's set up) about 2 weeks ago the computers were hacked into and spammed with massssssssssssssive amts of porn. I even got it in my PTO mailbox and we go thru yahoo. Thankfully since our kids can't access it they didn't see it......but if they would have had access they definately would have

From what I understand it's not the search engine you need to change, it's filter software. This is a job for you librarian or tech person. At least that's who would handle it at our schools.

Somehow at our school (k4-8) some children in the 5th grade stumbled upon some pornography while searching the internet. Naturally, parents are FREAKING out, the school kicked into gear to try and fix the problem. My question is...what kind of search engines do you have at your school?? Surely, this can't be rocket science. Are your computers limited to only a certain few search engines? These kids were able to access this on Yahoo, I hear. I found some naughty pics on a gardening website the other night!! Help! Anyone else have this problem?
Shelly