yes, I agree it is counter productive, sorta kills inspiration/ flow… but why wasn’t the microscope already installed on all machines that could possibly use it?

If any school had failed that test, the answer would have to be under-resourcing either in manpower or management – something I know is oh so rife still in education.

Web blocking like that is also limiting granted. Here, we do have an area wide filter that it is possible to hone. Sites that allow unfiltered/ anonymous/ potentially dangerous content are blocked by default – yes – that has to be extremely positive… granted sites proffessing an educational root should be ok. Again though, sub-domains that can in most cases be created can be unfiltered specifically so solving the problem.