US School Curriculum to Include Online Safety?

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."

The Internet, Like the Real World, Has Threats...

[morari]

Like online predators and cyber-bullies! We definitely need to protect the children from online rape and cyber playground fights!

Outsourcing

[pzs]

Since we seem to be outsourcing our parenting into schools, why don't we go one step further and outsource teaching to India? Kids could dial a call-centre every day to get their new dose of government mandated knowledge for that day. This would save a ton of money we could then spend on invading random countries.

The only problem with this approach is that people in India would be too sensible to teach creationism as science.

Peter

Re:How about...

[T_ConX]

'...teach children basic skills like reading, writing...'

I second the motion. Judging from what I've seen kids right, I can only come to the conclusion that a majority of them don't know how to spell even the simplist of words.

Forget about the their/there/they're confusion. It's getting so bad, that I have to sometimes sound out the mish-mash of syllables they've put together in order to understand what word they intended to write.

Invyrowmentill. I swear to Cthulhu, I once saw that! The English language is DOOMED!!!

Re:They do in my school. . .

[Verte]

"we watched a couple of movies where kids were raped by 40 year old men"

Sounds like you had a very liberal education :)

Re:"School's"?

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

Oh great, look what youve done. Now some idiots going to post some comment thatll put apostrophes everywhere, especially where its inappropriate, all the while the guyll think hes so funny. Its old, its really old.