Although I agree that children should be supervized once they enter the net, I disagree with tagetting neopets.com, it’s a rather weak example while pinning it against other advertising monsters.

Also, in the consumer culture we’re living in, is up to the parents to train their children into reacting to measures of purchasing, like a birthday or christmas, as adds will always be present no matter how many precautions they take. Remember, a child is your responsibility and corporations just simply do not care about anything else than profits.
~A (sora65)

I never even play those games or buy the merchandise advertised. All I want to do is have fun and play neopets. Brainwashing is a tad too strong a word to use. Influential is better. This article comes across to me as an assumption that children are feeble enough to buy a product they see on neopets. Even the five year olds that play neopets that my sister interacts with at camp know better. They see that this is just some way to get them to buy a product.

Check your facts with actual neopets players and rewrite this article. I will be checking in.

Signed,
A Neopets Player

Most school hand-outs have ads on them and websites for products! Even our own TEXT BOOKS have a few pages in the front of web advertisements. Not to mention quite a bit of the school computer software too.

Neopets isn’t too bad, seeing as the site is free and entertaining and you can mostly ignore the ads, and they need to pay for it somehow… But putting ads in something you already have to pay for, like text books, is ridiculous.

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http://education.guardian.co.uk/schoolsworldwide/story/0,14062,1306747,00.html

Here is one child who could certainly have benefited from home schooling …

“Raghda Alassar’s classmates did not hear the Israeli bullet that tore into the nine-year-old’s brain as she wrote an English test. But as a pool of blood spread across her desk and spilled on to the floor, a wall of screams rose from the classroom …”

Must be good dope =)

I am a FRESHMAN ON MY VERY FIRST DAY OF “THE REAL SCHOOL OF MUSIC PROFORMANCE “, WELCOME TO THE REAL WORD.
I THINK I AM SO EAGER TO LEARN I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL THAT IS THE TRUTH (OUTSIDE OF WRITING THE SONGS). THE STRANGES THING IS THAT AFTER I ATE THAT MERCURY IN THAT FOOD I HAVE NOT RECALLED WHAT I USE TO KNOW ABOUT A FEW THINGS. WELL I SEEM TO HAVE THE INTREST OF SOME INVESTORS AND I HAVE TO BE BARE-FOOT BUT-NAKED HONEST WITH THEN AND CONFESS THE TRUTH TO THEM AND TELL THEM I AM A COMPLETE STUDENT ON MY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL WITH THEM. THEY DON’T SEEM TO CARE AFTER THEY WATCHED ME WRITE A NEW SONG,…. AND I WAS SO AFRAID THAT THEY WOULD NOT LIKE MY SONG,.. AND WHEN I STARTED WRITING THE SONG FOR THEM IT WAS LIKE EVERYBODY AROUND ME DISAPPEARED TO ME AND THEY WAS STILL SITTING THERE,…. I FELL ALL OFF IN LOVE WITH THE NEW-MUSIC ALL OVER AGAIN, IN MY OWN WORLD,… AND SOMEHOW I KEEP AMAZING MYSELF TIME AFTER TIME AGAIN AND AGAIN,… I AM SERIOUSLY IN LOVE WITH MUSIC EVEN MORE THAN THE THINGS THAT I REALLY NEED, AND I FILL BAD BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE NESSESITIES THAT I REALLY NEED, NEED, NEED, AND WHILE I AM THERE CREATING THE SONG LETTING ALL OF MY FEELINGS OUT,… JUST A TEAR AWAY FROM CRYING MYSELF TO DEATH I ALWAYS SEEM TO BRING SOMETHING FROM MY LIFE OF PAIN AND SUFFERING TO THE NEW-MUSIC THAT I CAN NOT SEEM TO EXPLAIN,… AND THEY LIKED IT,…. SO I AM REALLY SO APPRECIATIVE INDEED TO BE A COMPLETELY GREATFUL AND HUMBLED SO MUCH THAT I KNOW THAT MY INNER SELF HAS CHANGED, AND I SEE THINGS FROM A MORE SERIOUS POINT OF VEIW BECAUSE OF MY NEEDS AND MY NEED TO TAKE CARE OF YOU JANET,…. AND MEETING MY NEEDS IS MANDATORY SO IT IS NOT NO BIG DEAL TO ME AS MUCH AS DEFENDING YOU AND BEING ABLE TO DEFEND YOUR FREEDOM TO MAKE YOUR OWN CHOICES WITH OUT ANY STINGS BEING ATTACHED TO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANT OUT OF YOUR LIFE, I WANT YOU TO KNOW BY DAY TO DAY EXPERIANCE WITH ME FACE TO FACE THAT I WILL ALWAYS STAND WITH YOU EVEN IF I DISAGREE WITH YOU AND WE BOTH KNOW HOW SOMETIMES THINGS JUST HAPPEN BECAUSE NOBODY NEVER KNOWS,… I WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO LOOK ME IN THE EYES NO MATTER WHAT AND KNOW THAT I AM WITH YOU, AND YOU CAN FEEL THAT SUPPORT OF WHAT EVER YOU ARE FEELING INSIDE THAT RUSH AND RELEAFE OF YOUR HEARTBEATING NATURALLY.

THIS SEEMS LIKE A DREAM THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOALS FOR MY FRIENDSHIP IN APPRECIATION FOR YOU BEING WHERE EVER YOU ARE LISTENING TO ME,… I USE TO TALK TO MY DAD AND HE ALWAYS LISTENED TO ME,… NOW I AM A FRESH AND NEW STUDENT AND LOOK AT HOW MY ENTIRE MIND AND HEART HAS CHANGED,… BECAUSE I WANT TO LISTEN SO DESPERATELY THAT I WANT TO LEARN SO I WANT THE CONFIDENCE OF MY INSTRUCTOR THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE MY INVESTOR,….

GOLDENLOVE

And of course, you can explore the subject via your favourite search engine.

If you DO decide to teach your kid at home, you’ll be amazed at the results. Cheers!