A chat with my tenant's son about his school project

He's 16 and said his teacher told him his essay on internet regulation was 'too political' and he had to pick a new topic. It hit different because he was just trying to analyze the rules on a gaming forum he uses. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing happen in schools now?

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jaken2327d ago

Teachers are scared of everything now. Kid should have just turned it in anyway.

ericp6727d ago

It's the same reason you can't find a decent playground anymore, @jaken23. Everything gets padded or taken out over some tiny chance of trouble. The kid's project probably got flagged by a system looking for problems that aren't really there. We've built a whole world where the safest move is to do nothing at all, so of course a teacher would rather avoid it. Turning it in anyway just gets you a meeting with the principal.