This was emailed to a coworker, and she emailed it to me.

I don’t know where it started, but I’ll give credit to the person who created this if she lets me know who she is.

The Homework:

The Parent Response Sent Back to the Teacher Once the Homework Came Home:

Dear Ms. Jones,

I wish to clarify that I’m not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.

I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn’t show me dancing around a pole. It’s supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot. From now on I will make sure to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.

Sincerely
Mrs. Smith

Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger

A billboard over a prominent intersection in Newark, NJ, has several people in that community in an uproar.

One blogger writes:

Her head is just under his crotch. The belt of the jeans is open. Her right hand is between his legs, reaching upward and grabbing on the back of his pants to expose part of his underwear. Her left hand, not far from her face, tugs on his front pocket. Now look even closer. His hand — what! — is over the back of her head. Get the picture now? Does that say JEANS?

My two questions:

• How long will it take to get it down?
• Is anyone talking about boycotting CBS, too?

To see the billboard and the full post, go to Sexually suggestive jeans billboard in Newark sends wrong message | NJ.com.

UPDATE: Sexually suggestive jean ad on Newark billboard will be taken down (01 March 2010)

My Question of the Day: It seems that young people fail to realize what they do today can come back and haunt them in the future. That being the case, what (if anything) should be done about teenage “sexting” (sexting is “sexy” text messages that can include semi-nude or fully-nude photos with or without explicitly-written content)?

My 2 Cents: Anyone taking the attitude that “teens will be teens,” needs to get a firmer grip on reality when it comes to this latest “sexting” craze.

“Sexting” by those under the age of 18 is considered child pornography.

If/when teenagers are found to be in possession of and/or distributing images of themselves or others under the age of 18, they can be charged with a felony crime, and made to register as sex offenders if they are convicted.

You think I’m making this up?

Tell that to Phillip Alpert, who vengefully sent nude images of his then-16-year-old ex-girlfriend to “more than 70 people, including her parents, grandparents and teachers,” according to an article in “Nation & World.” At the age of 18, Alpert was convicted of sending child pornography, sentenced to five years probation and required to register as a sex offender. His childish prank will follow him for the rest of his life.

What about Jesse Logan whose life ended when she committed suicide after an ex-boyfriend sent naked images of her to other girls who taunted and harrassed her so badly that she didn’t want to go to school and decided living with the shame and humiliation of “sexting” wasn’t worth it?

Oh, yes. There are the one 14- and two 15-year-old girls in Greensburg, PA, who sent nude and semi-nude images of themselves with three males across their cell phones, which were confiscated when one of the students had her cell phone on during class and a teacher saw the content? The phones of all the teens were confiscated, and they were charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.

According to an article by Sharon Jayson of USA Today:

Most of those (teenagers) surveyed (73%) said they knew sending sexually suggestive content “can have serious negative consequences,” yet 22% said it’s “no big deal.”

If your child has a cell phone, or if your child is reaching the age where you’re considering getting him/her a cell phone, please don’t take ”sexting” lightly. It’s no joke.

Check out Is Your Teen “Sexting?” and Sex and Tech: What’s Really Going On for more information on this subject.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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blacknthick  it goes back to there. Up bringing no one wants you to discipline there child or correct them and most folks are trying  are trying to be there child friend some don’t have any good examples to look up to in there household

JoshDamage  there isn’t much to be done. In some states there are laws and awareness campaigns. Kids just gotta be smart.

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