UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet

Marlow the Irelander writes "The BBC is reporting that in response to a YouTube video of a schoolboy breaking his teacher's window (yes, this is a video), NASUWT, one of the teaching unions in the UK, is calling for legislation to control the internet. Could Britain, rather than the US, be the main front of the battle against censorship in 2007?" From the article: "Unfortunately, any yob or vandal can now have their 15 minutes of fame, aided and abetted by readily accessible technology and irresponsible internet sites which enable such behaviour to be glorified. [The general secretary of the union] said the union supported a zero tolerance approach in schools to pupils who used technology to abuse and undermine teachers, and called for more rigorous legislative control of internet sites which gave them license."

British teachers have always been jerks

[andy314159pi]

Remember this?

How can you have any meat if you don't eat your pudding?

Re:British teachers have always been jerks

[andy314159pi]

err
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Re:typical over-reaction

[suso]

How about out-of-touch teachers who demonize technology to abuse and undermine pupils?

Shut up and eat your meat!

Be like starbucks

[bahwi]

Teachers, post a video of yourself giving the kid detention for a month.

Pretty much.

[khasim]

Just so we're clear, their logic is that the internet is a catalyst for youth vandalism?

Pretty much. Yep.

Man, kids these days. When I was their age, we had to vandalize stuff the old fashioned way.

Oh, they're still vandalizing the old fashioned way. Almost everyone had rocks when they were growing up (but the ones who didn't will swear it made them better people).

What's different now is that instead of hanging out behind the gym, smoking cigarettes you stole from your Dad, telling your friends how you smashed Mr. Crabapple's window and ran away .....

You post on your MySpace site a link to a video taken by a friend with a cell phone that is hosted on YouTube and all your friends tell u how k3wl u r. lol. h3 is gh3y!

Re:typical over-reaction

[dosius]

"How can ya have yer pudding if ya don't eat yer meat?"

-uso.

Re:Damn those irresponsible sites..

[menkhaura]

Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone!

(yeah, cheap, I know...)

Re:It was good they were jerks.

[gotw]

I doubt the authenticity of this comment. Using the British meaning [english2american.com] of the word I'm quite sure using a 'fanny paddle' would have been quite illegal, even in the 1940s'.

Re:Just so I get this right...

[El_Muerte_TDS]

Couldn't you simply watch the right MacGyver episode?

Teachers Windows

[jonv]

The real problem here is teachers using windows.
Would the students try to break Linux or OS X ?