Apple recommended content filter for schools

We have a 1 to 1 deployment for students and I am curious what Apple is recommending for Internet Content Filtering. Does anyone have any suggestions of a product we could evaluate? Yes, I have looked at the search engine results but want to see if there are any I am missing or see what Apple suggests.
Thanks!
Scott

The enemy of Children on the Internet is not content.
It is CHAT.
"Naughty pictures" will not arrange to meet you at the mall. "Naughty pictures" will not take you to another state and rape and murder you.
To counter "Naughty pictures", I advocate placing computers so that the screens are visible to casual passers-by. The kids will not dare to put up "naughty pictures" if they know a teacher will look up and see them. And if the students think someone is doing something wrong, they will either gather around and make a fuss, or rat on each other in a heartbeat.
To counter chat, I advocate throwing iChat into the Trash and emptying it. When you have your annual "talk" with students, you remind them:
1) School Computers belong to the school and are only for school work
2) that their activities leave a trail and that trail will be checked,
3) they should have NO expectation of privacy,
4) they must not provide identifiable personal information or chat with anyone using school computers
5) anyone who enters themselves onto MySpace or equivalent site, using any means whatsoever, will be subject to disciplinary action.
Our fear is not that kids are bad, or that they do not mean well. Our fear is that kids do not use consistent good judgment. As the adults, we have to make it easier for them to do the right things.
Forget the filters. The antidote to bad stuff happening is adequate set-up, initialization, and supervision. Computers are not baby-sitters -- they are too dangerous for that.
apparently, the p-word for "Naughty pictures" is forbidden here.
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