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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. "
Internet illiterate?
Pray tell, what does the Internet have to do with this:
"Hey kids! Don't go meet anyone you haven't met before and haven't spoken to on the phone, alone, in a non-public setting, without telling anyone where you're going."
This has nothing to do with the Internet, sorry. If they had mandated 'Internet safety', they'd be teaching kids not to browse porn sites with Internet Explorer and then do their online banking. And not to install WICKED COOL SCREENSAVER.EXE, despite how cool it sounds. And to mouse over links in their e-mail, and not to click on them if they show a strange mix of four distinct numbers instead of an actual domain name.
Internet safety my arse. Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Internet safety, Proxmio, and this is not it. This is not it. What this is, is doing the jobs of dumbass trailer trash who squirted out brats after a night of drunken lust in the parking lot of a Taco Bell. Not that I'm against it - someone has to fight against the level of stupid that's infecting our society, but call it what it is.