One in Four - Scary

Schools are being advised to have policies on safe Internet use, after a cyber survey revealing shocking results about young children and the worldwide web.

The Internet Safety Group survey shows one in four children aged between 7 and 10 met face-to-face with strangers they met online.

Group member and Mt Roskill Grammar's associate principal Claire Balfour says parents, teachers and pupils should sign contracts with conditions about safe Internet use.

She says schools should be implementing the Internet safety kit which was distributed to all schools in March, 2000.

And the Education Review Office is renewing its call for all schools to develop Internet safety policies.

National manager of reporting services, Francis Salt, says last year ERO found 82 per cent of schools had inappropriate Internet policies.

She says those schools are now developing better policies.

Ms Salt says schools should follow the guidelines set out by the Internet Safety Group.

Yes this is seriously bad, I heard it today on this mornings news

scary business this internet ...

but I met someone from biggie and she was fantastically friendly so maybe we should introduce biggie to the schools...

erm no bad idea munky

Hehe Munky PG is a cool chick bud & at least when we do meet peeps from biggie we always have someone with us Well I do anyhow

I had sly but dont think I needed protection from PG hehehe

that is farking freaky we had to sign this thing when was at school. but our school blocked anything to do with java chats and we couldnt down load files and they somehow blocked hotmail.

but yea it was a good ideas cause ur there to learn not surf i suppose

weren't there some more even dodgy stats that said x number of kids were meeting ADULT strangers and didn't see any problem with it?

St peters denied the existance of the net, but now they have a brank spanking new IT lab.

It is impossible for schools to have Internet policies that stop all undesirable use without restricting the internet so much that it defeats the purpose of having it. Children can meet people online from untold sources. The statement from ERO is typical of the sort of crap they come out with. Most of them know nothing about the practicalities of the issue in schools. Even if they did all they actually do is check whether the school has the correct policy, not whether they enforce it. The other point is that school use of the internet is usually more policed than home use.

I didnt believe that, untill I met exodus

D-Man - please leave the jokes in the lounge.