US School Curriculum to Include Online Safety?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday August 17, 2007 @02:54AM from the more-information-is-rarely-a-bad-thing dept.

Stony Stevenson writes to mention that the US National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) is pushing for school's to include cyber-security, online safety, and ethics lessons in their normal curriculum. "The National School Boards Association reported that 96 per cent of school districts claim that at least some of their teachers assign homework requiring internet use. But there is still no formal education on how to stay safe, secure and ethical online, despite the fact that the internet, like the real world, has threats and dangers which students may come across in the normal course of a day. These include communications from identity thieves, online predators and cyber-bullies."

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In other news by drukawski · 2007-08-17 04:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Mary Kay Letourneau will be teaching your child's class about how to not get raped though the internet. As well as how to get raped the old fashoned way, through field trips and seeing the teacher after class...