Blocking certain sites can make having the Internet at all far less useful to teachers. Youtube's one of those. Unfortunately, Youtube doesn't have allow-list c

Blocking certain sites can make having the Internet at all far less useful to teachers. Youtube's one of those. Unfortunately, Youtube doesn't have allow-list capabilities that'd allow blocking YouTube proper but allowing some subdomain that required login and displayed only permitted videos (parents have only been begging for it since, IDK, forever—YouTube Kids is a cesspool, all we want is allow-lists, but nooooo). Youtube was especially vital during remote learning (what's a better way for a teacher to distribute a video lesson?) and some schools are still trying to use similar schemes for snow days and such. Plus there's just a ton of useful material on Youtube and teachers don't always think of some video they might want to show when they're at home and can snag it on their own connection, or maybe they want the kids to watch them individually at their own pace (being able to pause or rewind is so nice!) (for the record, I'd rather they just ditch the tech entirely until at least high school, but if they're gonna have it, they probably ought to have YouTube access or else it's far less useful. I'm also not sure why schools started letting kids carry phones to class, what a fucking terrible idea)