Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding

Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by chomp on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:24AM (#26425739)

Title is probably sensationalist. More likely that stretched IT departments at schools implement one-size-fits-all content blockers for websites and this particular site is caught up in a blocked category. I have strong doubts that schools are collaboratively targeting and blocking repl.it in particular.

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Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by Wistar on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:35AM (#26425874)

My spouse is a teacher and can confirm that their IT dept uses a very broad brush in blocking things on the network. Many of the blocks are of sites that have become important teaching resources such as pinterest.

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Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by lostlogin on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:46AM (#26426037)

Pinterest themselves go a long way towards breaking Google. Their crappy spam prevents you getting to the actual source of an image. I can’t believe Google tolerate it.

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Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by mytailorisrich on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:46AM (#26426024)

If a pupil somehow manages to access pornographic, violent, racist, whatnot content the school is going to be in trouble. The safest and simplest is to block liberally. No-one is going to be in trouble for blocking Pinterest.

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Re:Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding by Wistar on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:34PM (#26432241)

I think that an IT department should have enough wherewithal to be able to distinguish between student accessible resources and teacher accessible resources.

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