Speech. Our knowledge issue is To what extent should censorship be allow in school. We will also compare the situation in school to censorship at a global level.

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HS - In recent years, China has been heavily criticized for their censorship on various means of media in order to protect their population. More recently, we’ve seen bans on internet sites such as Facebook, ABC News and ibgames.com. The recent ones were done in order to stop the riot in Uranqi. The Chinese government claim that Facebook was used to communicate the message to riot, hence by blocking these kind of sites, they would stop riots. The international world has judged this act as a violation of freedom of speech and freedom on information. This issue forced us to think about the situation we have in our school. As you all know, 2 years ago, the school placed restrictions on the visitation of certain site that have certain key words like games or instant messaging. They have also add Quotas to insure that a student doesnt spend a lot of time of a particular website even if it is for education - related issue. This situation is very much like the one in China and hence we have decided to look at the situation with our TOK caps on. Our knowledge issue is To what extent should censorship be allow in school. We will also compare the situation in school to censorship at a global level. 

 

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JT - Recently in our school, year 7s and 8s have been asked to buy laptops from our school for educational purposes. However teachers have noticed that a number of these                  students have been using these laptops to play games above their age limit. This has concerned them, leading them to discuss whether the laptops provided by the school should only have games that are within the ESRB age limit of the user. This is clearly an act of censorship by the school, which raises the issue whether the school has the right to tell their students what to have and what not to have on their laptops. An argument for this is that they do not have the right as they did not pay for it and it belongs to the students parents. Furthermore there are students who spend numerous hours playing games not suitable for their age, but ended up perfectly fine. For example if we take our good friend Paul Jeong who played violent games ever since he was a child, he is managing to achieve normal IB scores and is not disobeying school rules.

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HS- The counter argument for this is that it is the moral duty of the school to make sure that the student concentrate on their studies rather than playing violent games that could create bad behaviour in later life. Some may also say that the school has the right to ask the student to not have these over-age games on. Lets take school as a service. Services have certain rules and conditions that need to be followed in order for you to enjoy the service. If these rules aren’t followed, the provider doesn’t have to provide the service to ...

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