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Virginia First State to Require Internet Safety Courses for Kids

by Terrence O'Brien on April 8, 2008 at 03:39 PM


Virginia has become the first state in the nation to mandate some form of Internet safety courses for public school children. Details on the program are scant at the moment, but the courses came out of concern for teens and pre-teens who may be the target of sexual predators.

As part of presentation in a Richmond, Virginia high school, the state's assistant attorney general, Gene Fishel, showed images of a social networking profile of a convicted sex offender who pretended to be a 15 year-old girl.

It's nice to see a state reach for education as a solution to the problem instead of censorship.

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Tags: children, education, internet, safety, school, virginia

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