The school board of the Winter (Wisc.) School District passed a policy to keep students from seeing "controversial materials" on the Internet during school hours. The board held off, at least for now, on extending the ban to computer use after school.\n The board said it will draft another policy to govern Internet access after school. The district participates in a program that allows students and others in the community to get on the Internet when school isn't in session.\n The policy was adopted after the board learned that a 15-year-old honors student visited Web sites that contained feminist literature and information on Buddhism (www.interinc.com/Allfaiths/Buddhism/), witchcraft (www.wicca.org) and the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, The Pirates of Penzance (diamond.idbsu.edu/gas/pirates/html/pirates_home.html).\n The problem started in February when the student, Burklin Nielson, was told to get off the Internet after landing on a Web site about wicca, a nature-based and friendly type of witchcraft that traces its origins to before the birth of Christ. She had taken a course last summer in world religions and philosophies and was simply satisfying her curiosity, her lawyer said.\n The lawyer objected to the policy because the word "controversial" is too vague and because total discretion rests with the person supervising the Internet usage.\n District superintendent David Scarpino said the policy is similar to those in other districts and serves to protect students from material that is inappropriate. Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (www.ala.org), disagreed. "I'm afraid that a vague policy like this would hamper children's ability to grow in the educational environment," she said.
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