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Along with MLTI comes the required Bess filter. Because in many schools the entire network is represented by a single IP address, a password to bypass the filter causes the entire system to be unfiltered for 15 minutes. According to Kathy Casparius, Augusta School's Technology Curriculum coordinator, using the bypass password does not bring down our filtering system down completely. This is why many school systems do not issue those passwords to teachers. In Augusta, Bess always applies above and beyond our local filter. Augusta recently changed local filters from Barracuda to Lightspeed. The change was precipitated by the issue of netbooks to all Cony High School students. The IT department felt that the existing Barracuda filter would not handle the increased traffic well. Because of this change some previously unblocked sites were blocked once again causing much frustration among the teaching staff. The Children's Internet Protection Act requires that students be protected from pornography and Bess seems to do a good job at that. Jeff Mao, Learning Technology Policy Director for the Maine Department of Education says, " Implementing a filtering system that allows teachers to override the system for just their computer requires that the filter is local (ie not implemented at the State level like BESS) in most cases. Then, its purely a matter of creating usernames and passwords as well as establishing practices around them, and policies. Ideally, teachers should, at the minimum, have override passwords because it is written into the same federal rules that demand that schools filter...it also speaks to the notion that teachers should be able to override the filters when necessary for the purposed of academic research." Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and wikis are still fairly new and administrators are still sorting out how much to restrict. Unfortunately, since most of these decisions are made by the people who face the wrath of the public if something inappropriate slips into the schools and not by the technology integrationist and classroom teachers who can see the value of these tools in the classroom, it often requires the end users to convince the IT folks to loosen up the filters. Jeff Mao says, "In my opinion, filtering is necessary, but it controls need to be placed in the hands of the teachers. Teachers may need a little more training and a specific protocol to follow to determine if a blocked site should be white-listed, but in general, that decision should rest with the teachers. They have both time and self-interest involved. While they don't have lots of spare time, when they need a site unblocked, if they had the access rights, they would have the time right then to unblock the site as well as the self-interest to get it done. When this is left to the IT department, there is no way that they can be responsive in time frames that are relevant to the classroom. Its not their fault, but there are too many priorities on the plates of the IT department, and no self-interest involved when it comes to white-listing a web site."