Children need educating about the internet

We need to protect our youth from the devastating content of today’s Internet. Too much of its substance is no longer focused on providing valuable and accurate information. Conversely, it’s morphed from an essentially indispensible source of technical and factual knowledge to an extremely harmful sensationalizing publication similar to the National Enquirer Magazine.

Making matters exponentially worse is our unintentional apparent validation of its content through our lack of outward official condemnation of those wide spread usually slanted and inaccurate versions of things. In the absence of our once healthy Post WWII productive Middle Class job market; far too many have turned to whatever provides income including employing unabated distorted attention grabbing topics to draw visitors to web pages. Making matters worse, as a World Wide Web browser it’s assessable from all points of a world filled with many who see our continued success as an intolerable adversarial threat and impediment to their own desires and goals.

The internet provides our enemies with a conveniently unobstructed path to the still developing minds of our naïve youth often altering their future perceptions of reality and priorities. Our youth, also known as our future, end up unknowingly derailed from paths leading to being self-assured constituents of a much needed foundation for a stable cohesive national fabric. As a nation and as parents and especially as teachers we should explain these facts to our children and all other youths. This should be a required part of our nationwide 1-12 school curriculum right now. — John Archibald, Oroville