Archive for February, 2007
Teacher Could Get Jail-time For School’s Negligence
Julie Amero, a substitute teacher at an elementary school in Connecticut, is looking at a potential whopping 40 years of jail time on four counts of risking injury to a child. There was nothing physical going on, but somehow the classroom computer displayed pop-ups of pornographic material. I don’t see the connection to calling it [...]
A Lotta Waddle Going on For Club Penguin
At the beginning of January I posted an article “Why are kids chillin’ with Club Penguin?“. Since then I have received a lot of great input from visitors, both young and old, players and parents. This has been a great experience for me — and hopefully my visitors — to see the different opinions about [...]
Open Invitation: What’s On Your Mind?
I’d like to get an idea of what topics concern you with regard to Internet safety. Do you use parental control software? If so, what is it, what do you like/dislike about it, what others have you tried? Do you have any advice that you’d like to share with other readers? How about stories of [...]
Another Example of Parents Not Taking Responsibility
What’s worse than four teen aged girls getting sexually abused by adults they met on MySpace? Their parents suing the site because they think it should have done more to stop it from happening. Excuse me? These parents are too embarrassed to admit they failed to supervise their own children and left them to roam [...]