PCMag: Since it isn’t a priority in public schools, parents must teach kids the fundamentals of online safety. Here's where to start.
When I attended public school in the late 90s and early 00s, I learned how to perform now-archaic tasks such as writing in cursive, balancing a checkbook, and navigating the Dewey Decimal System. I'm pretty sure my compatriots from Gen Z and Alpha have never learned dinner-party etiquette during a home economics class, and no one born after, say, 1998 knows the fear that comes with approaching a whirring circular saw during shop class. The public school curriculum in the United States has evolved over the decades, but it needs to change faster to help keep everyone safe in the digital age.
