WHEN THE INTERNET BECOMES X-RATED: CREATING AN ETHICAL CLIMATE EOR TECHNOLOGY IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

Pornography is the number-one business on the Interne!, yet the very.same Internet can be a valuable source of knowledge for alt students. Educational leaders face many challenges in bringing the Internet into classrooms. This article reviews recent and relevant case law on Internet access in schools, offers guidance about the writing of effective acceptable use policies, and concludes with advice to Catholic school teachers and administrators on creating an ethical climate white fully using available technology. AS of 1999. the Internet was made up of more than 200 million usersworldwide. There are now more than 100 countries linked to the Internet. The Internet works by connecting computers together by various means so instantaneous communication can occur. The World Wide Web is "a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents " writ-ten in a language called Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) (Webopedia, 2001). Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer allow us to access the World Wide Web. The Internet has often been compared to a multilane highway with the World Wide Web comprising jus