This is a petition to remove Lightspeed RELAY from Chromebooks in the Grand Forks Public School District.

Here are the reasons it should be removed:

• Too Restrictive
  Many students use other browsers to go on sites that are actually perfectly fine for schools. It also blocks Educational Sites, which can also cause problems.
• LS Classroom Is a Better Alternative
  With Lightspeed Classroom, teachers can restrict students to specific sites, and block others that can cause problems. But even that has its own flaws, It is susceptible to human error, students could spend 5+ hrs on a project then a teacher wipes it with the push of a  button.
• Can Be Easily Bypassed
  Using Remote Access Software, Different Browsers, and even Task Manager (A built-in Application) Students Can Disable, Or Even render it useless for a couple of hours.
• Change Takes A While
  When It blocks educational sites, A Teacher COULD ask for it to be unblocked, but that has a possibility of taking hours or days for several reasons; People get busy, Clogged Schedules, Forgetfulness, and most importantly, It would just be easier to remove it.
• No Need For Browsers
  If the Lightspeed relay is removed, students will not need to use task manager, other browsers, or remote access software.
• Damages Performance
  This isn't as noticeable on 3100 Chromebooks, but on 11 G6 EEs, it slows down the Chromebook drastically, and sometimes even freezing it entirely. It Also Slows down the internet and can cause Chromebooks with no problems to also run slow
• After Hours
  After School, the lightspeed relay is still active even though school isn't, As long as the site is not 18+, students should be able to go to that site.
• False Claims
  Lightspeed Relay Claims it works by constantly downloading The Whole of the internet, but the internet is estimated to be over 1,200 PETABYTES! (1,200,000,000 Gigabytes). BUT, even IF you were able to store that much, it would still cost $42,000,000 every crawl, lightspeed systems makes about 25.1 Million dollars a year, but even then, it crawls the web every 2 weeks, so Lightspeed systems would have spent 4.36800 billion US$, since relay's(filter's) release. Lightspeed systems was founded in 1999, (22 years). so multiplying its yearly revenue, times 22, we get 552,200,000, how much money is made not including the cost of employees which their salary is $145,000~ and they have 173 employees.
  So Therefore, It is impossible to store the whole internet every two weeks considering the lightspeed systems' budget. 
  
  My Point Is; Lightspeed relay MAY help in some scenarios, but Can actually cause students to get into more trouble than if it were removed.

The Absolute Best solution to the problem would be to remove it and use a combination of the firewall and Classroom to get it done.