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School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
destinyland writes "Good news. The National School Boards Association, which represents 95,000 school board members, just released a report declaring fears of the internet are overblown. In fact, after surveying 1,277 students, "the researchers found exactly one student who reported they'd actually met a stranger from the internet without their parents' permission. (They described this as "0.08 percent of all students.") The report reminds educators that schools initially banned internet use before they'd realized how educational it was. Now instead they're urging schools to include social networks in their curriculum!"
remember kids, the internet might not be dangerous, but overuse of commas can be!
Heaven forbid our youth finds out that the world isn't nearly as bad a place as our fear-mongering overlords paint it to be. I for one welcome... Ah crap, I'm too afraid to finish...
In related news; The researchers originally intended to intervied over 2,000 children, but for unknown reasons 723 children were mysteriously vanished even though logs showed they were accessing their myspace profiles just hours before.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
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FAQs are evil.
Next thing you know, these kids will be poitnlessly commenting on newsgroups and opinion sites instead of worki... Oh Crap, here comes my boss!
"...76% of parents expect social networking will improve their children's reading and writing skills..."
The internet improving the writing skills of children? That's unpossible!
Agreed. Their methods must be incorrect if they can describe anything containing /. as not dangerous, or anything other than "A threat to humanity, the planet, and possibly the solar system, galaxy and universe as well."
Or how to spell percentages... ;D
There is a war going on for your mind.
At which Verizon location do you work?
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. -FZ
Captain, sensors have picked up the Internet, dead ahead.
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
Absolutely, whoever raised that .7 needs to be spoken to in the harshest possible terms.
ow about "Does the Star Trek transporter use lossy or lossless compression? Why?"
So *that*'s why the show kept gradually getting shittier over time. ;)
By the end of reading your post, my pulse was perfectly in sync with the commas. If you had ended your post with ellipses instead of a period, there's a good chance I'd be dead right now...
Would've made getting through history and geography a lot easier...
You do honour to your slashdot username....