C pointed me in the direction of this the other day. Now I understand all the issues about student Internet access whilst under the care of school, and yes, I’m not entirely sure that students need to be able to access their MySpace network during the school day, but nevertheless, it strikes me as the kind of law that punishes enormous numbers of perfectly decent, reasonable children because there is a miniscule possibility of them being potential victims of a small number of perpetrators. I say it over and over again; our job as educators is to educate (young) people about decent, safe and sensible ways in which to navigate their way through the virtual world. We take it as read that we should be teaching them social and moral issues with regard to the ‘real’ world, after all. And as ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ blend and distort themselves together (and as children grow up never having known a world that wasn’t wired), it seems only sensible that we start to address that issue and educate accordingly, instead of shying away from it and being draconian and knee-jerk reactionary.

Oh and yeah, I’ve been busy recently with too many things, mostly school related. Well actually nearly entirely school related, such that my head currently feels close to implosion.

Think I will put on the new Sambassadeur EP and let its sweetness seep into my weary bones…