This might be an interesting question for general Internet user because most of us consider Wikipedia as a source of knowledge.So it is not a bad thing (according to schools too, like My space ,Orkut or any other social networking site and neither it consumes a lot of band width like Skype, Youtube etc.) to deal with even then ,why would school like to block Wikipedia.
Unfortunately the answer lies in the nature of Wikipedia itself means Anybody can edit or modify the content of any article of Wikipedia which makes it more unreliable and schools would not like that students gain knowledge from an unreliable source.
This might lead them to confusion and make a teachers job more complex as we all know about the nature of students who are confused on a particular topic.
Schools have taken this issue seriously and they advise students not to relay entirely on wikipedia for the study purpose and even Wikipedia co-founder stated once that they got nearly 10-15 emails a week about the students whose project or assignment was rejected of failed because of the information taken from Wikipedia so even Co-founder of Wikipedia advised students not to use Wikipedia for study purpose.
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