Nebo School District is the school district that me and many other kids my age go to. from ages 5-18, we go to school to learn how to be a functioning member of society, and be a good citizen who is smart. Internet safety and internet citizenship are some of the more important skills, nowadays, because of how much of our lives revolve around technology.  however, there are a lot of bad people on the internet that want to exploit children and there still developing brains. So it makes sense that a large concentration of kids who are online for a lot of the day should have some sort of filter to protect them from pornography, malware, shock sites, things like that that many bad people would love us to see. This is why Utah's safe technology utilization laws exist. These are generally a good thing, and I wouldn't wish for those laws to go away. However, the way our school district has utilized these laws in a corrupt and unjust way, with such uses including:

• Banning many websites outside of the actual law stipulations
• Many redundant bans, such as banning searching words on Google such as "pedal" or "teen" or "boot"
• Abusing their power as admins and high ranking school officials
• Bias and targeting against specific people
• Making actually education harder for the kids inside the district
• Violating actual constitutional rights and their own policy

If these claims seem serious, that's because they are. and I wouldn't blame you for scoffing and clicking off, after all, im a teenager, and the initial impression of this essay might look like some brat asking for his game websites back.