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SLAMedia is a publication of the news for the Science Leadership Academy community. Writers come from the student body in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. We work in unison to create a functioning paper with biweekly postings on a variety of events.

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Locker Talk: What website do you wish was unblocked in school? Why?

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“Facebook. I like facebook and it’s really fun.” - Freshman Hikma Salhe
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“Tumblr. I feel as though we should have other means of expressing ourselves besides twitter.” - Sophomore Alexis Dean
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“Damnlol because when I finish my work I think there should be a site we can go to to waste time.” - Sophomore Nadir Meeks
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“Facebook because there is definitely a lot of educational things you could find on there if you use it right.” - Freshman Morgan Caswell-Warnick
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“Spotify. Having spotify blocked is just going to make us torrent music.” - Junior Anthony Buchanico
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“Youtube. I know it’s unblocked already but I don’t care about any other website.” - Junior Ananda Kinght
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“No website. People shouldn’t be focusing on something else besides their school work.” - Sophomore Rahed Albarouki
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Students Limited By Blocked Websites

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By Tytianna Broadwater

Staff Writer

In this past year the school district of Philadelphia has been blocking websites that have previously been available to us.

Last year, there was access to websites and apps such as Spotify which only played music, but is blocked this year

No one really knows how or why the school district blocks or unblocks the websites, “I don’t know who’s mind goes behind the whole process and I wish I could talk to them,” said Senior Annisa Ahmed.

Teachers and students feel it’s a pain in the bum to not have access to Facebook because SLA does a lot of networking. “Facebook should be unblocked because it’s social media and Twitter is unblocked, so it’s basically the same thing there.” Annisa said.

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Some other students have mixed feelings about the websites we have access to, “They’re good at picking out distractions,” stated sophomore Melanie Harrington. “But they don’t realize that some of the websites are used for more good than harm.”

“Its not totally clear what triggers a blocked page” English Teacher Larissa Pahomov said, after her juniors wrote and posted their 2fer papers and then came back to find their articles blocked by the school district labeled as ‘pornography’.

Students at SLA have stated they get really annoyed when they are doing a project and they need a simple picture such as a flower and they can’t access it because of labels like ‘mixed content’.

On the other hand Principal Chris Lehmann does not experience content blocking like the rest of the school because of his administrative access.

“SLA would rejoice if things are unblocked,” Annisa added.