Scaring children about the dangers of the Internet and blocking access to social-networking sites can do more harm than good, according to a report released Friday by a committee tasked by the U.S. government to explore online safety. Parents, teachers, government agencies, and other organizations should promote online citizenship and media-literacy education, and actively encourage […]
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Scare tactics, blocking sites can be bad for kids
Judge convicts Ark. mom in Facebook flap with son
An Arkansas woman who locked her son out of his Facebook account and posted her own items there was convicted Thursday of misdemeanor harassment and ordered not to have contact with the teenager. Clark County District Judge Randy Hill ordered Denise New, of Arkadelphia, to pay a $435 fine and complete anger-management and parenting classes. […]
Congress considers raising unrestricted driving age to 18
One of America's quintessential teenage romances -- driving at age 16 -- is under congressional scrutiny. In May, U.S. senators proposed new driver's license standards that would raise the minimum unrestricted driving age to 18 nationwide in effort to reduce teenage traffic deaths. The proposal mirrors a U.S. House bill filed last year. Driver's license […]
The STAND UP ACT is a Big Mistake
This month New Jersey's new law imposing increased restrictions on young drivers, Kyleigh's Law, went into effect. The law, which would, among other things, require all new drivers under 21 to place a red sticker on their license plates has faced widespread opposition and civil disobedience....
Third Circuit rehears online speech cases
PENNSYLVANIA – Two cases regarding student online speech were argued before the full Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today after two three-judge panels of the Third Circuit handed down conflicting opinions last February.
In the case of Layshock v. Hermitage School District, a ...
'Helicopter' Parents Have Neurotic Kids, Study Suggests
Source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100603/sc_livescience/helicopterparentshaveneurotickidsstudysuggests)
BOSTON - Overly protective parents might be leaving a lasting impact on their child's personality, and not in a good way, a new study finds.
The results show...
14-Year-Old Tattooed Against His Will
Investigators Say Group Promised Not To Pick On Boy If He Complied A 14-year-old boy was coerced into getting a tattoo by others who said they wouldn't pick on him at school if he allowed it to happen, police said. Police said that a group of young men enticed the boy to a residence on […]
Shopkeeper Stops 17-year-old from Purchasing Puncture Repair Kit
A teenager was refused a repair kit for a punctured bicycle tyre - because the shop's staff feared he might sniff the glue inside. Daniel Cottrell was shopping with his father in a pound store when he was refused the set, which included a 5ml glue stick. The keen cyclist, who is two months shy […]
Judge moves against Facebook youth group
Argentinian justice orders site to block youngsters' truancy campaign BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A judge in the Argentine province of Mendoza has ordered Facebook to shut groups created by minors to organize mass truancy from school. The order by judge Alfredo Dantiacq Sanchez comes after more than 2,000 adolescents in schools across the province's capital […]
School Bullying: A Tragic Cost of Forced Schooling and Autocratic School Governance
by Peter Gray Let's say you are 15 years old, or 13, or 11, and for some reason--a reason over which you have no control--you have been singled out by your schoolmates as an object for scorn and humiliation. Every day at school, for you, is another day in hell. You are called "whore," "bitch," […]
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