Posted on 03/23/2007 10:30:42 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
You are correct. My dog has such an account.
Seriously, it does take time and active attention to home-police kids' use of the internet no matter what type of school attended, including home school. Time, attention and knowledge -yours and theirs- are the keys.
Analogy: gun control. If your kids aren't exposed to guns and learn respect, how to be safe around them, then they will grow up to be afraid of them and against all gun ownership - by habit and your example.
Advocates of delegating internet policing duties need to understand that only knowledge, attention and time spent ONLINE side by side with your kids will achieve your goals.
I see that you totally avoided trying to defend your original argument. Why not take your own advice and let parents raise their kids the way they want without having to agree to draconion restrictions that an out of touch, control freak administrator wants to implement.
Look, private schools are not immune to critisism. The common freeper response of "if you don't like it, go somewhere else" is just ignorant BS.
Private busineses, love to receive feedback rather than just have people abandon them. A restaurant I really like changed their menu in a way that really made the place less attractive to me. Rather than acting like an idiot and just refusing to eat there anymore, I let them know that I felt their change was ill thought out and that it cost them a lot of my business and probably many others. They listened and changed.
Schools, public or private, getting into the business of restricting internet activity of their students away from school is a very bad trend and one that should not embraced in the name of "safety". This opens the door for government entities to do the same thing in the name of "safety' and they will use the argument that "private schools have been doing it for a while".
Do you care about personal freedoms at all or more about raising your kids in a protective bubble?
Well, a private school does have the right to address this and to forbid it from their student population. My daughter in law allows the girls to participate in some site that only has a friends list and they can only communicate with them and only if they ask first. This is the right way to do things. It's scary out there for kids and the public sites can really harm them. Thanks for replying.
then they would have the right to tell you to send your kids somewhere else, to a government school. This is a private school and they have the right to their rules.
That's fine by me they can tell me to send my kids elsewhere, and when the socialist idiots lose money on their school they can whine to someone who gives a damn.
Your dog has a myspace account? If he or she is the friendly type, my cat might want to add someone to her friends list. lol. Yes, my kids insisted I make a myspace account for the cat. I felt so white and nerdy.
I agree, but then for me, it wouldn't be an issue. My kid wouldn't be on myspace anyway (and he wouldn't be going to a Catholic school).
That only guarantees you won't be prosecuted by the government. It does not guarantee that you can go to a private school regardless of what you say.
See post 78
These private schools are not usually run by socialists but by Christians. There IS a difference.
Christians do not try to dictate what goes on in your own house.
They lead by example.
Either that or all of my Christian Family did things so out of whack with current day Christianity that I no longer recognize it.
Socialists are socialists, whether they claim to be Christian or not.
End of story
OK, how many faked-up MySpace pages have been created as joe jobs to get a personal enemy expelled so far...?
I consider the following scenario to be pretty much inevitable:
1. School finds a MySpace page apparently belonging to one of their students and punishes the infraction.
2. Student claims (honestly or otherwise) to have no idea where the MySpace page came from, and demands proof that it wasn't J. Random Fugghead creating a MySpace page in his name.
3. School officials, who (as evidenced by the fact that they came up with such a boneheaded policy in the first place) can't tell the Internet from a hair net, are at a loss to respond.
4a. School officials back down, or
4b. Student rips school officials' lungs out through their noses in court.
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