Comment Who this burden should fall upon! (Score 1) 137
I am teacher and a very avid support of using the internet for educational purposes, while I have wrestled many times with the issue of online safety for my students, I have come to the conclusion that the burden of who should teach our children internet safety, falls on all of us as society. We can not look to one group to teach our children this vast topic, I mean yes parents teach their children to look both ways while crossing a street, but would anyone simply stand idly by while a small child goes to run out into the street to chase a ball. No, we would yet to that child and tell them not to do it, even if they were not our own. Why do we do this, simply because we do not want any harm to come to that child. This i truly believe is the same type of issue, we a "village" must raise our children to be safe on the internet, if for nothing else than the fact that it is not going away and will probably become more prevalent in our lives.