Email is banned in my school, how do I check it?

Question

For some reason, all major email sites (Yahoo, Google, MSN) are blocked at my school. I don't have a printer, so I used to email my homework to myself and print it in school, but I can't do that now. How do I get around the block?

Answer 1

It'd probably be easier just to buy one of those little USB drives from Walmart and save your homework on that, as opposed to trying to get around your school filter. Even if you bypassed it one time, they'd simply fix the hole and block it again.

You could also see maybe if something like box.net is unblocked at school - it's free online storage - so you could just save your homework stuff up in there - then access that at school - if you don't want to carry around one of the little usb drives.

Answer 2

You wait until you get home, then talk to your parents and see if they'll agree that you need this sort of access while at school. the school officials are not being mean but they are taking their jobs seriously. They wholeheartedly believe you deserve the best possible learning environment and that keeping tight control over modern technology is the way to ensure it. But by all means, you should not behave as though you've been unjustly attacked - they ain't doing that and don't mean to do that, kiddo.

If your parents agree, there will be others who also agree. The parents should then get together and arrange a meeting with school officials to discuss the issue and perhaps clear up any misinterpretations and misunderstandings that are interfering with students' use of this valuable, but dangerous, tool.

I suspect you already know how hazardous unregulated 'Net access can be for unwary kids. While you may be perfectly capable of avoiding the pitfalls, other kids your age may not be - and they're the ones whose use of the Internet at school needs to be monitored carefully.

There are always compromises. You, your parents, and the school should be able to reach a point where you have the access you need and the reasonable concerns of school officials and parents are also met. Good luck!

Answer 3

Computers for education usage are very often locked within a proxy range and highly secured to prevent students from accessing the web on their own, downloading stuffs that 'contaminates' the school com terminals.

The best way to get around this problem is to access one of your teacher's computer (you figure out how), get their password which is most probably the 'administrator' access, with this, you can configure your com to suit your needs, accessing whatever emails or website you want.

Else, be a good student and access your email only at home.

Answer 4

You need some old school tech to solve this problem. Go to your local office supply store and ask them for these two items:

1) Paper
2) Pencil

You will need to initialize the Pencil (use a tool called a "sharpener"). The use the Pencil to make marks on the Paper that will resemble a printer output. If you make a mistake, the Pencil does not have a backspace key, but uses a feature called "Eraser" to remove the erroneous marks from Paper.

Answer 5

Although your intentions are noble, there are those who use school computers for non-educational purposes, such as e-mailing, or messaging with their friends, or playing games, or something as bizarre as asking questions in certain websites! ;)

As such, you should respect your school policy, and not try to circumvent it, which could get you into big trouble.

P.S. To those who suggested using cellphones to e-mail the homework, many schools ban the use of cellphones, and some even prohibit students from bringing them to school. Besides, cell e-mail, like "texting", can be an expensive proposition.

Answer 6

ok say its on word or something save it on a floppy disk( i know out of date but my schol still has a disk fdrive for them) or use a USB thing to save it on them plug those into the computer at school open it and then print it...you can also if you have a CD burner burn the info. to a CD and put that into a computer if you have all three or two of those do it on them both or all casue somtimes computers at school are weird and don't let you do certain things like go on the internet...

and all you gotta do is say agian go to WORD then file/open and it will open to the big box with all your saved docs. and you go to the top to the scroll box and click on either the floppy drive/CD drive and forgot the other one but you'll find it


hope this helps

Answer 7

You don't. The system administrators at your school obviously don't want you going to those sites. So they've blocked them. Circumventing that block would only get your computer privileges revoked.

Invest in a USB thumb drive.

Answer 8

use proxy sites. like kproxy.com . type the website into the little bar thingy and you can go on like any site. only i'm not sure if kproxy can be used to log into stuff because whenever i used myspace it would let me log in. well if it doesn't let you go on tech-faq.com and theres a little button on the top that says "proxy sites" and there sould be a list on the left of proxy sites you can use. if you use one and they block it then you still have like 100 more you can use. most schools will not block proxys. at the public school, the proxys were not blocked and at the private school i go to now, the proxys are also not blocked.

another way is to use on of those USB thingys. they're not that expensive now. just save your work on there and put it into the computer at your school. but some school computers don't allow people to use them. you can also use a floppy disk or burn the info on a CD. if all else fails write your assignment on a sheet of paper and go in the computer lab at your school and type it.

hope this helps.

Answer 9

well i am not allowed to check email from my work either. but sometimes i get thru th eemail thru the indirect links. for eexample if i type Yahoo.com it wont work. but if i search yahoo mail in google and then follow some indirect link to the email. it works sometimes. good luck

Answer 10

Use myphpproxy.com

Its the best. Also, you dont have a printer, ever heard about floppys (if anyone still uses them), even a flash drive would come in handy.