Boy! And after the Met worked so hard to put up that beautiful site! Is this a recent development (ie in response to "sensational" exhibitions)? This is positively weird. Makes one wonder what the heck a Board of Education is. Serious implications indeed.
Bill Low

laura dickstein wrote:

> (Please excuse the cross-posting)
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I had an interesting discussion yesterday with a group of 25 New York City
> public school teachers.  They were telling me that it is very hard for them
> to find the time to get to visit museums.  I suggested that they might try
> to review museum resources on the Internet and was told the following
> astonishing fact (?):  The NYC Board of Education has put up firewalls
> against museum Web sites.  According to this group of teachers, it seems
> the B of Ed. doesn't want students to have the liberty to access museum Web
> sites because they might contain things that are so-called inappropriate
> for children. Has anyone else heard this?  Is this happening in other
> communities?  If this is the case, this obviously has serious implications
> for museums.
>
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