Thats actually not suprising, well, im more suprised i haven't heard something like this earlier, when i was at school i knew how to by-pass the schools security; you might want to just email them like you did with some sort of argument based on the fact they are preventing you from learning about a different culture/religion/cult etc, ifyou want to get specific that is. I don't know lol.

Goodluck with it.

Anonymous can confirm, that due to the usage and nature of the N2H2 system (Bess/Smart-filter):

“Custom block list” means that it yes, indeed it is custom, and relates only to the school.

you can rest assured that the School itself has blocked it, not the education department.

likely your IT department has been asked to, or have instigated it themselves, this would not be a 'system-wide' setting.

- Anonymous

I agree with anon1919 in that don't think that you should be risking anything that would equal harassment within your own personal life. There will plenty more opportunities to do more to reduce the cults influence then this one. You don't have to pursue every one.

However, I do believe that you have EVERY right to:

a) Inquire as to what it is that you did that was infringement of their IT policy so as to know best how you, and other classmates can avoid it in future.

b) Request what the principal and Admin's opinions are regarding your letter, again so that you, and fellow students (of whom you very well are asking on behalf of) can better understand the schools I.T. policy.

c) A school is obliged I believe to offer certain priveleges to their students within limits. They are accountable to you and your parents if they fail to deliver. In this instance if they have removed your privileges for 2 weeks, you have every right to take it further and ensure that it 'firstly' had nothing to do with your letter.

If so, how so? What did you do wrong being a concerned student? How would they have preffered you handled such a query?

'Secondly' what is the schools opinion and why? They do have to justify the reason they are limiting your access, and the reasons HAD BETTER BE ONES THAT THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH STATING PUBLICLY AND BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR!

>>>> I WOULD DEFINTELY DO THIS AT THE BARE MINIMUM: I'd say, you clearly are concerned in avoiding any I.T. breaches, you have every intention infollowing IT rules. You'd like to know what you did to cause you to lose access, and whilst your respect the schools decisions to ban / restrict certain sites - it did surprised you (and other students discussed the matter with) that those were removed and were simply curious why?

Again, based upon concerns of Scilon overlords bodysnatching your highschool teachers, I wouldn't push it further than this unless you felt comfortable. Heck they can't stop you from telling all the kids at school.. but then again - you don't want a phonecall from some dude asking your mum about a doco as with Psychedeas.. Hmmm..

The corruption at your school is a real shame. This one offence is tolerable (you don't need to access anon stuff at school), and kicking up a fuss is not worth the trouble it would bring in this case. It was a bit reckless to be accessing anon sites knowing that scions were in the administration anyway.

if you were trying to DDoS a Scientology site, from within your school's network; i could understand the heavy handed response… but, let's assume you were one of the thousands of students who read one of the MANY national (and international) press stories where OUR Education Minister reportedly called Scientologists “bastards” and indicated their tax-exemption staus was questionable.

u wanna know more about it; why were the Minister's comments considered so controversial? so u decide to use your school's resources to further educate yourself on the matter. you look up the media stories, you look up the people/organisations mentioned in the media stories. you try and LEARN about the whole thing…

is this not RESEARCH!!? EDUCATION!? is this not LEGIT!?

like or not, it was the Minister for Education herself that has raised this issue for a lot of people. students shouldn't be punished simply for looking into the issues the Minister herself has raised.

*i'd love to hear the opinion of any1 who works in the education field*

Without knowing the contents of the email which I would NOT reccomend you disclose, I can't say whether it could be percieved as threatening or not. It could be subjective.

Something completely obvious we've missed, What do your parents think about all this? Are they in favour of your actions? If they are, you should bring them on board, if they're any good they'd be outraged. and one thing principals have to deal with is outraged parents on a daily basis.

You're dealing with emotional people here, you've called them on their shit and because they've got the power, they want to DO SOMETHING so you DON'T DO IT AGAIN.

It is rather dissapointing that you've actually talked to them about their OFFICIAL rules and OFFICIAL policy, through an OFFICIAL method and they've reacted like you just did something quite nasty.

Any other school students who read the forums care to post Anonymously whether they can access the sites or not? see how many schools can/can't.

also if “what” happened again? he's going to have to be a bit more specific than that. perhaps you can get your parents to ask.

if you use the 'internet'? if you try and ask about official policy again instead of what any normal student would do - try and circumvent it?

WTF!  I assumed you were at a public school! WTF?! I assumed there was no way a private school (typically catholic) should be pushing an non catholic curriculum / agenda! Its part of the <expletive> education package for <explitive> sake! E.g. blah blah offer etc in a loving catholic environment. That is so <expletive> bs! The problem is that there is no way to push that the judgement itself is a scilon related decision… Grr!!

Look i do agree not to push it beyond this with your school for now. We know the end of level boss is a scilon… But leaving it at that is a smart call. I agree that perhaps this one isn't worth the effort nor should be high on our priorities list… It really doesn't disadvantage you / anyone else too much as its prob not ideal to be chekn sites at school anyway.. Despite the outRAAAAGGGEEEE, the fact is any anon will still be anon at home, and anyone who learns about us will still be able to come to oursite else where.

IF anything should be done, I think it should be done under another identity or by somebody else and at a later date so as not to be associated with you. In fact their probably smelling your body thetans now =) I'd say any discussion / consideration to take this further should be done off forums via PM or IRC.

I'm under the impression schools monitoring / restricting usage is a issue not just for ur school. Perhaps we should deal with this problem as a whole? Hmmm.. maybe a letter / email to the education minister (jane lomax smith) would be a good start? At least she isn't a scilon! heheheheheheh =D

Anyway good work Alex for taking it that far! It sounds easy to give advice but it takes guts to carry i out, good job ;)

don't forget Hubbard said in his own words “there was no Christ” and claimed Christianity was simply another implant.

you're attending a private Christian school, hijacked by a small number of cultists subversively pushing an anti-Christian message via Scientology - yeah? wouldn't the parent-teacher association (if u have 1) eat that up? i mean 'Who would Jesus fairgame?'

call up Today-Tonight. u can get the story out there, without revealing yr identity on tv. it might not help u; but would help the cause and could encourage other kids getting gamed, to come forward.

bumped