Those are examples of educator perceptions of how to handle appropriate Internet use by students, and a general preference I see for using the content filter to block websites rather than deal with student behavior choices and hold students accountable for their decisions. On the parent side, I have heard of cases where parents are angry “at the school” when their child has accessed something they should not, rather than holding their own child accountable for their actions. This is probably a more general issue, where many parents today (or at least “some,” maybe the word “many” isn’t justified) are very confrontational with school officials and tend to place blame for problems on the school in virtually every case, rather than holding their own children accountable. That personality type or accountability orientation type is certainly not the general rule for everyone, so maybe I am overgeneralizing. I do think our emphasis in schools needs to be more on individual accountability for our actions, where we choose to go online, rather than viewing cases of inappropriate student use of the Internet as fundamentally a problem that needs to be solved with a stricter content filter. I think our schools need systems where individual website use is documented with virtual breadcrumbs by login, and that list of accessed websites is viewable by both parents and teachers, as well as individual students for their own virtual online “history.” Systems like PowerSchool which allow parent and student access to attendance records and grades should be upgraded to permit access to individual login histories. Certainly proxy sites can and are used to bypass a system like this, but this system would show the use of proxy sites– and conversations should then ensue about why a proxy site is being used by the student in question. I don’t know of any schools currently using a system like this for online behavior accountability, but I think schools should be, certainly schools that are 1:1, but also others.

However, I don’t know if I agree with you that administrators and teachers are held “solely” responsible for the appropriateness of websites students access. If students are purposefully going on websites they shouldn’t I would think that would be equivalent to any other act of insubordination and the student would be held accountable for their actions, not the teacher. At least that’s how it would work at my school.