Somewhat related to the last post about the War on MySpace, now this is a case of schools using information posted on student’s websites and MySpace pages to punish them. The Chicago Tribune did a story on it, and asked for our comments. Excerpts:
A north suburban school district could become one of […]

Well it was bound to happen. With all the media hysteria over MySpace, any student of our opportunistic elected officials should have known what was coming next. Congress has proposed a bill that would ban MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and potentially all chatrooms, forums, blogs & Instant Messaging from school & library computers. […]

NYRA just released a fascinating new study that Mike Males put together that makes a very convincing case that a large part of the reason for high traffic deaths among teens is not simply due to their age, but because of their poverty level. This is an angle of the issue that to my […]

From the NYRA Forums:
I just wanted to thank all of you. This forum and the NYRA has really affected me. I was/am really depressed, but when i go on here i feel like i am surrounded by friends.
Thank you all. I just wanted you to know that your 1/3 of the reason i […]

A new project of New York City Indymedia, IndyKids, has been censored by two area library systems. After agreeing to distribute IndyKids to their local branches, both the New York Public Library and the Queens Public Library changed their minds and now refuse to distribute the paper. They say the reason for their decision is […]

Thanks Jackie:

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow […]

One blogger disagrees with Matt and DJW’s support for lowering the voting age. His argument:
So, if we’ve established that there should be some age restrictions for voting, it becomes clear that the distinction between 17 and 18, or 16 and 18, etc. is pretty arbitrary. There’s no significant reason to choose one over the […]

Today (well yesterday really) is a good day for youth rights and the push for lowering the voting age. The issue is starting to crack the blogosphere. I just was alerted to the fact that Matthew Yglesias has picked up on the issue and voiced his support for it over at the TPM […]

Adam over at the Freechild Project has called me out from an entry I posted on One and Four where I said the following:
I do agree with integrating youth in with the adult community though. That’s one of the many positive benefits that youth rights holds for the world.
While many of Adam’s points were unclear, […]

Look, Gabriela, I am not anti-algebra. It has its uses, I suppose, and I think it should be available for people who want to take it. Maybe students should even be compelled to take it, but it should not be a requirement for graduation. There are those of you, and Gabriela you are one, who […]