A tip about Youtube, if you want to expose your class to music...

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ds2 (Y5) came home telling me that the teacher put a song on, and they got the B word, the F word, and the MF word, with a grand finale of MF'ing B. With some twerking thrown in. It was meant to be an example of ancient greek music, so not sure what search terms she put in, nor if the school have a webfilter in place.....

As you were. I just felt the need to share.

His teacher was very flustered. Apparently she ran across the classroom, causing much commotion. It happens.

Ancient Greek? Wow!

That is exactly why we have youtube blocked in school. Frustrating as it is, having to download everything at home first means that I've checked it out before I show it!!

Everyone knows that the Ancient Greeks invented twerking. That poor teacher though ...

I hate schools that block Youtube. All that messing about with illegal downloaders and memory sticks because you don't trust your staff to use the internet responsibly. All you need to do is make sure you watch the clip you plan to use before you unleash it on the pupils. How hard is that to do really? Hopefully your DS's teacher has realised that now, OP!

I don't understand why the teacher wouldn't have taken it off as soon as s/he realised it wasn't appropriate. Why let it get all the way to the end?

How are kids going to learn coding at school if their teacher hasn't yet mastered YouTube?!

Surely everyone knows that where youtube's blocked, you just ask a passing year 9 for this week's proxy?

The only members of the school community our firewall ever keeps off anything are the Head & a couple of other luddites among the senior staff..

Actually, the IT technician thinks he's successfully blocked the proxy I use, & it's true, if you type it in it won't work. Still fine if you've got it bookmarked on your favourites as RavenTube, though...

We used to have youtube blocked. Didn't stop us using it though.

But don't understand why the teacher wasn't prepared and checked beforehand. Surely they have used youtube before?

Problem is with youtube, even if the actual video you plan on playing is fine you have no control over what adverts they show. I've had some startlingly inappropriate ads for music videos start to play when all I've been trying to do is find old kids tv episodes!

Yup, what pourquoi said.

It's always safer to download beforehand - it's just an added layer of faffing about with illegal download sites that don't always do your home PC/laptop any good. Certainly with KS4 I risk it via a proxy & keep my fingers poised for owt dodgy on screen.