Education

My daughter was searching for kid-friendly free online games tonight. She came across one named Short Bus Rampage. The description of the game is as follows:

Drive over and murder all the school children as you get your own back on them for bullying you! Drive over them all and then out of the scene by [...]

I received a lengthy comment from Mike, who asked me several thought-provoking questions. I had intended to answer them as a comment as well, but I decided to make them into a blog post. Thanks, Mike, for taking time to read and reply!

You say you have the intelligence to teach her but do you really? [...]

There are dangers everywhere online. Far too many people don’t take the threats seriously. They feel that simply not opening attachments or keeping away from adult websites is all it takes to keep your computer safe. That is absolutely false. The most harmless looking sites can and do install what is known as “drive-by” Malware. [...]

After exhaustive research, reading and soul-searching, I have made the decision to home-school my daughter. She is nearly 13 years old, and extremely bright. She tested at 10th grade level in most every subject area last year in sixth grade. After speaking with her school today, and finding the right place to buy our curriculum [...]

So I was sitting on our private Ventrilo server last night with Chris Pirillo, Sc_Thor and Wirelesspacket. Someone pointed out an article that I happened to click on to check out… and I blew a gasket! Of course, Chris recorded us discussing it.
Apparently, there is a Bill in front of the Democrats that, [...]