THIS COULD WORK IF DONE PROPERLY (Score 1)

Although VA's ideas for implementation may have some fundamental flaws, it could work if done properly. How about if we have college/university grad students (as part of their graduate work for CompSci or CompSec) provide the training to the local schools. This way, the curriculum would be as up-to-date as the coursework that the grad student is studying and hopefully better than what a teacher attending some training course would be able to teach. The internet is a great resource/tool, but can also be a dangerous place with many mal-intentioned folks waiting to harm, scam, disrupt, or otherwise negatively affect the majority of users. While I do believe that education (be it practical real-world or academic in nature) should be something both in the classroom and out, most parents are ill equipped to cover a broad range of topics in this area. As a side note, but somewhat in the same context, these kids should also be taught about what is and isn't legal on the internet. As a senior network security engineer, I have seen interns that had exceptional technical skills that I couldn't use because they had been involved with questionable activities (IE: hacking/phishing/illegal file sharing/etc.) and they couldn't get a clearance. There is a market for those skills, but some of these kids will never get to use them because they went about it in the wrong way. In summary, there are dangers out there and we should find any and all ways of articulating this information to our kids (as well as adults), but responsible use should be in there as well.