This is already happening in the UK - it started under Thatcher with various
forms of corporate sponsorship and is now being carried further under a
purportedly Labour government. Recently the first 'failing' school was
handed over to a private firm to run and in 'Education Action Zones' where
the local authority is judged to be failing the kids (which has nothing to
do of course with the last 2o years of falling funding), schools are to be
put out to private bidders, who supposedly will do it out of the goodness of
their hearts, but will in reality, of course, use it to make money.
Bruce Robinson
Am i missing
>something, or isn't that another recipe for INCREASING the alienation of
>kids, and further depersonalizing an already depressingly anomie-inducing
>institution? Are these/you people out of their/your F******G Minds?
>cheers, chers
>konopak
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>At 11:23 PM 5/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Kids Can Now E-Mail Tips On Their Violent Peers
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>>www.msnbc.com
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>>5-2-99
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>>A nonprofit group that watches the Web for pedophiles and stalkers on
Friday
>>launched a new service: allowing kids who know of classmates, Web sites
that
>>threaten violence or suicide to e-mail their concerns along to
authorities.
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>>The Internet, so often unfairly blamed as the cause of problems, can and
>>should be the solution to problems. The KIDReportline is only one example
of
>>how the power of the Internet can be unleashed to help, not harm., -
>>CYBERANGELS STATEMENT
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>>Responding to the Littleton, Colo., tragedy, the all-volunteer group
>>Cyberangels said it would keep the identities of the children reporting
the
>>sites confidential, and would forward credible threats to police and
school
>>administrators.
>>
>>The service is aimed at those children 'afraid of reprisals' from school
or
>>classmates, says Cyberangels director Parry Aftab.
>>
>>FOR KIDS, NOT ADULTS
>>
>>Aftab, a lawyer who's been on the Net since 1992, will be reading and
>>responding to the e-mail herself, offering not legal advice but advice
that a
>>mother would if her child asked "What should I do?"
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>>The first e-mail tips came from teachers and other adults, but Aftab
>>emphasizes the service is for children, not parents or teachers who
already
>>know where to turn. "They don't need me for that," she says, "the ones who
do
>>are kids."
>>
>>The idea came to Aftab after a reporter writing about Littleton asked her
who
>>was responsible for ferreting out violent Web sites. No one should, was
her
>>immediate reaction, but after a restless night Aftab said she came to the
>>conclusion that "there must be something we can do."
>>
>>NOT WEB POLICE
>>
>>Calling herself a Free Speech advocate, Aftab says Cyberangels is not in
the
>>business of actively searching for violent sites. "The tips have to come
to
>>me" and from a classmate about another classmate's Web site, she insists.
>>
>>In a statement, Cyberangels said its service, called KIDReportline, also
aims
>>to show the value of the Internet. "The Internet, so often unfairly blamed
as
>>the cause of problems, can and should be the solution to problems," it
said.
>>"The KIDReportline is only one example of how the power of the Internet
can
>>be unleashed to help, not harm."
>>
>>Tips can be e-mailed to <tipline who-is-at cyberangels.org
>>
>>Or, via the group's Web site at <www.cyberangels.org>
>>Kathy Noll & Dr. Jay Carter
>>Authors, "Taking the Bully by the Horns"
>>http://members.aol.com/kthynoll/bully.htm
>>kthynoll who-is-at aol.com
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