The folks in one northern Michigan community can rest easy because it’s clear their high school computer teacher is on the ball. Last week in the computer lab, a student who had completed his video production assignment killed time by surfing the Internet on a school computer. But the teacher (unnamed in news stories), caught a glimpse of the screen and put a stop to the student’s consumption of vile and vulgar Internet content.

Just what despicable web site was the young man viewing? Here’s fair warning before you read on… consider sending the children out of the room or at least shielding your eyes.

He was reading Foxnews.com.

According to reports, when the student, a senior, was caught scanning headlines on Foxnews.com his video production teacher publicly berated and belittled him for reading the “wrong” news.

Thank goodness there are teachers like this all across America, protecting our children from the dangerous influences of the Internet.

Not.

I assume, based on the student’s reported comments, that the teacher would not have reacted similarly had the young man been reading headlines at MSNBC.com, but that’s conjecture on my part. Theoretically, though, since Fox News was deemed the “wrong” news, another outlet would be viewed as the “right” news. As in correct. As in left.

But let’s not confuse the important point here, which is that a teenager was reading the news. Any news. News that was not a sports score or a story about “Brangelina” or the week in review on American Idol. Continued...