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Today all things came together at school . Sweet! My grade twelve class started working on the using-the-internet-safely pamphlet aimed at elementary school kids. One of the grade seven teachers, Lynn, the teacher librarian at our elementary school invited my class to share the pamphlets with the grade seven students. Sweet. I introduced my students to the class blog (see here) and told them they needed to get a registered user’s name at WordPress so they could access it. Then one of my at-risk kids told me if the administration made me move out of my classroom, he and his friends (some of my other students) would pull all the fire alarms in school and committ others acts of vandalism to get even. It’s “nice” to have that kind of support. I guess my attempts at teaching my students appropriate ways of resolving conflicts haven’t been successful, yet. Oh, well. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of opportunity to do so.

As I was driving home from work, I was thinking about kids surfing the Internet and what they could get exposed. Wouldn’t you know it, when I got home, I open the paper and this headline caught my eye “More kids exposed to Web porn”.

More children and teens are being exposed to on-line pornography, mostly by accidently viewing sexually explicit websites while surfing the Internet, researchers say. Forty-two per cent of Internet users aged 10 -17 survey said they had seen on-line pornography in a recent 12 month span.(Toronto Star, Feb. 5, p. A 15)

Whoa! And, I’m telling my students to go on line at home to complete research assignments. Something definately needs to be done. I guess parents could install some type of filter to prevent the accidental viewing of pornography. I wonder what is being done. I know I’ve typed Barbie into Google and I got some surprises. Try it yourself. When a seven and 1/2 year old types Barbie into a search engine , she definitely shouldn’t see what we saw. She looked at me, and I looked at her and she said, “I don’t think I’m supposed to see that.”

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