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Virginia Becomes First State to Mandate Internet Safety Lessons
kaufmanmoore writes "The Commonwealth of Virginia has become the first state in the nation to require that students in all grade levels receive a form of internet safety lessons. The story is scant on details about the lessons, but describes one recently at a high school where the presenter showed a social-networking profile of a convicted sex offender posing as a 15 year-old girl. "
or maybe it is better to keep all the mommy and daddy basement dwellers in a single location to keep an eye on them.
Spelling and grammar mistakes specifically left in to give the grammar and spelling nazis a meaning to their life.
The lessons will take an "abstinence only" approach, and will feature a videotape titled Internet: A System of Tubes of Terror showing the like-true story of an 18 year old whose accepts an invitation to a slumber party that turns out to take place in the basement bedroom of a 320 lbs., 48 year old furry fan.
No you have to sign an EULA
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I'm sure this Internet Safety Lesson will teach them how to shop safely on the internet.
With their newfound confidence, they'll be able to spend more than ever!
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I'll be damned. An insightful goatse link.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
They require internet safety belts, internet air bags, and internet car seats!
Now they can start teaching kids how to pass the No Child Left Online test...
Oh COME ON!! You know they won't teach the important stuff, like how to defend against a goatse attack. Do you expect some underpaid government nanny state social worker to be able to properly outline the correct the Natalie Portman and grits defense?! I guarantee you they have no idea about Godwin's law! These kids are doomed from the start!
I got a catholic block.
"This is a fine idea - The internet is a treacherous place for children."
Agreed. Now let's take it a step further: make it illegal for adults (over 18) to pose as children (under 18) online.
That would fix the 31-yr-old posing as 15-yr-old problem.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
There is absolutely NO REASON to teach our children physics... A) Realize that no matter how many sample problems they work through, kids will still find problems that they have not seen before B) Realize many young scientists will rebel and say nothing can travel faster than light or that mass and energy are the same thing C) Realize that teaching students about inertial frameworks will just make them think they know how to solve problems that involve non-inertial frameworks D) And lastly, realize that this opens up an avenue for propaganda by CERN and the *AAS to try to squash discovery by spreading FUD about how fundamental discoveries require trillion dollar colliders!! Sure it seems like a good idea, but remember the government gave us the ATOM BOMB and most likely doesn't know anything about what the laws of nature are really like.
Have a class where the kids all get fake identities, and try to get on the network and steal the fakes from each other.
Give the kids a lesson about phish, you bore them for a day. Teach the kids to phish, and you could educate them for a lifetime.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Have some teenage girl, maybe 14 or 15 start up an online relationship in this class with a supposed cute boy. Then later on towards the end of the Internet education session, the "cute boy" is brought in and he kind of looks like Meatloaf.
Surely internet abstinence should be taught.
In a hundred years, schools have not addressed real life bullying that includes the same things that happens online as well as physical assaults.
Sure they have. They introduced Zero Tolerance policies so that when a kid who is being bullied defends himself from the bully, they both get suspended.