Is anyone else offended that our kids in school are using this forum to learn to hack school computers?
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Absolutely!  \n\nMy kids are still in elementary school, but I know that high school is just around the corner.  I think it is appalling that kids can learn those types of things here, or anywhere.  \n\nI am disgusted at the questions kids are asking on here about sex and the like.  I pray that I can steer my kids clear of this kind of filth.  They're great, innocent kids so far.  \n\nKids are even having others do their homework on this site!  Unbelievable!
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Yes I watch and  think those guys are sick. They all should be lock up and/or sent some were where they can't hurt kids. The one guy i couldn't believe was the teacher I would have loved to to her what his school would have to say. As for there family I would of loved to see a hidden camera in there house and see how there family reacted to find out what the did. i hope all there wives /girlfriends divorce /leave them. Like I said before they should be lock up for a long time. If they our let out the shouldn't be able to have computers and they shouldn't be able to get with in 1000 or feet of a child
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Why....lets see now, because you are supposed to be in school for learning what they are teaching, not for socializing with god knows who on what could be a dangerous website.
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Kudos for this question!\n\nWhen I read through some of the questions and answers on here, I often find myself grinding my teeth in frustration over the spelling and grammar of too many postings. It seems to me people lack pride, or they don't realize they are presenting themselves to the entire world as illiterate idiots. I also think too many kids/young adults today believe dumb is "cool" - guess what, kiddos, it's not!\n\nBut then again, after seeing a public school teacher (of all people!) in a news interview several years ago say that for her job, "I teaches English," I shouldn't be surprised....
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I think having a 4-year-old type change your password and then conveniently forget what it is, should be the only way.\n\nI'm in the same boat, Jim, let's you and I agree not to go onto this site until 06/29/06. Email me if you agree.
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froggy,\n\nIf the "policy" of this school is not to communicate through students, then the teacher was definitely in the wrong for sending a reply to you through your daughter, regardless of the offensive statement.\n\nThe statement, mind you was ignorant and offensive...that sort of thinking has no place in schools and absolutely no place in the minds of teachers...who, of all people should not place preferences for "real" or biological parents versus what, "un-real" parents, who made no genetic donations to children they care for and raise as their own?\n\nIf anything, these are the folks who should be held as the ideal, and get positive attention, instead of being shunned as someone who isn't a REAL parent...\n\nPlease...I wanna know, who is this ignorant ******?  Which State made the worst decision ever, and granted this person a teaching certificate?\n\nMs froggy, I would not rest until I get this person in front of the school principal to explain herself.  Go to the county school board if you get no satisfaction there, and to the media if you're still getting ignored.  There is no place for thinking like that.
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I REALLY hope that you are kidding!!!  Hacking is illegal!  Don't be a loser and explore that realm!
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its  a enormous waste of time, trying to look up answers on your own,if you dont know/ dont understand the subject...i try to answer step by step simply so that these kids are spared beating their heads against a wall....i know most kids dont get personalised attention, or maybe simply shy to  admit they dont know.....here, online, its anonymous and they arent under pressure of being judged..so they ask questions freely, sometimes even the questions that seem silly, questions they wouldn't ask otherwise....
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I'm going to overlook your misspelling, your rant, your slam against another user.\n\nBecause you have raised a valid issue.\n\nThe enemy is US.  We allow it.  Want to stop it, start at home.  Don't know what else to tell you.\n\nI'd tell you the problem is public education, but at least some of those kids can spell.
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I have asked myself the same question.  \n\nI suspect that many of the people here are:\n\n1.  very young\n2.  have multiple accounts and are playing games for points accumulation.\n3.  Are looking for someone else to give them their homework answers (which would fit in to your lazy theory)\n\n\nPerhaps I'm wrong, but so many of the answers I've seen are shockingly sophomoric.  So much so that they could only have come from children.   Now, this could be a helpful tool for kids to seek input from others, but there really should be a mechanism in place to prevent some of the absurdity that is present.  \n\nFor example:  (Hey Yahoo, are ya' listening?)  If someone submits a post that is just ridiculous, the other members should be able to penalize the person who posted.  \n\nAnd, since so many of the answers to ridiculous items specifically make reference to thanking the poster for the two points, it would seem that the points matter.  So, I suggest that stupid posting just for the points be an offense that is punishable by a significant reduction in points, say 50 points!!!\n\nJust a thought!\n\nSorry Punchline.  Didn't mean to step on your toes here.  I do think that the laziness to which you refer and the game-playing that I referenced are linked.
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I agree.  Half the kids who try and get answers to their homework would have done far better to type their questions into google instead of this forum.  I have a friend who likes to make up bull$hit answers that give the appearance of being correct but throws in absolutely false info to teach them a lesson in cheating.  \nTo those above who think we are jealous because we didn't have this "help"...I'm glad I was able to do my own work and I am a smarter and more productive adult because of it.  People can't go through life expecting others to cover for them, or they will eventually get burned.
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what does this have to do with special education?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...\n\nI am sick of people who keep using the special education section as a place to ask anything they like. especially when its something inapropriate, something they obviously already know the answer to, or something that doesnt even have an answer. For goodness sake Why would you ask "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"\nThey cant chuck wood, thats all that matters!. And this question. come on. I know your probally bored, but if you are that bored why dont you do something productive. People think of special education as a joke and im sick of that. they use the term as disses and thats not right. even teachers do this sometimes. People in special education have feelings too! In fact alot of us (yes us, I am not ashamed to say I am in Special ed.) are more sensitive than others. Many people are in special ed because they been through things. Many of us have and if not currently at least have had depression at one point in our lives. Sometimes this is the cause of being in special ed, sometimes this being an indirect result of it. It needs to stop being taken as a joke. And I know I am not the only one who feels this way.\nThank you for your time\n---- hpfanatic1130
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Absolutely. I don't know if I'm just prematurely cranky, a born curmudgeon, or just value being able to read a post without resorting to crypanalysis, but I can't stand the little murders committed on our language ten-thousand times a day on Yahoo Answers.\n\nThis so called SMS language may have a place in the lives of people sending text messages to one another over cellular phones, but anyone with a full QWERTY keyboard in front of them should use it.\n\nI don't mind the obvious typo or the posts made by clearly dyslexic people, but the indecipherable gibberish posted by most of the users on these forums is shameful.\n\nI'm assuming that most of these offenders are still in school. I have been given the excuse that their young minds are so hungry for information that they simply don't have the time to use complete words, proper grammar, or bother to check their spelling as they type.\n\nI cry foul! There is no excuse. The only way for an interaction between two humans to remain successful is if clear communication exists between the parties involved. When people don't understand each other, they start to throw punches and eventually the guns come out.\n\nThat may be an exteme example, but Yahoo Answers is nothing, if not a microcosm of a society which values the free exchange of information. \n\nIf we don't understand each other there will be flames, sarcasm, and eventually, a break down of the system.\n\nThis would hardly be the first time that poor communication doomed an otherwise good idea to an early grave.\n\nWhat I'm saying, kids, is that you should learn to use the language. It's the most important tool you have and it deserves more respect than it is shown around here.\n\nADDED DETAILS: Response to Petra:\n\nLack of an education is no excuse. Everyone in this country is entitled to a free ride through school until twelfth grade. Even the worst school system in the most depressed region of the poorest state will teach a person how to form a sentence and put forward their ideas. It's not the lack of education that is the problem. It's the lack of initiative on the recipients of said education.
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it might backfire when you find real nukes not only pointed at you (thats 'you' not us) but targeted directly at your personal anal passage. but as the highly intelligent girl above pointed out. you are not the real bush but some spotty little oik at his computer in his parents basement. nice job Poindexter. whats next? should we ban internet useage by children during school holidays? It may not address the Iran issue but it might stop rubbish like you posting utter bollox.
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Bah I think the kids are to bplame... and tehre parents for letting them put up personal information.\n\nThen again it's a modern trend for suing some one else for something thats your fult...\n\nYou know some one sued a home owner becose he accidently stabed himself on a knife that was laying out the home he BROKE INTO..... WTF....
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I don't really see a problem other than some of the websites are way to much detail....The kids should be out doing something more productive than trying to make their website look the best.
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Don't they're there for you protection.  It's censors, by the way.\n\nHave fun in school today!