According to a Republican sponsored proposal in congress, children in school should only be allowed to access static web pages uploaded via FTP and without comments enabled.  "Social-networking sites" broadly defined as anything with user profiles and communication between users, the ability to create a web page, etc. would be filtered by public schools or they would lose their subsidized internet access.  Andy Carvin, now at PBS, is the place to look for more information.  Original coverage from CNet.

You know what kids?  School is stupid.  It always has been - and now you've got the internet.  Face to face interaction with a wide variety of people and some quality internet use will lead to far more learning than some stupid public school quaking in its boots over MySpace and willing to take down Blogger and Flickr in its paranoia.  Hard work, creativity and communication skills are going to take you way further than school - ok?  Argh, I hate this kind of stuff.

Update: Heated rhetoric ends and intelligent discussion of the issues begins in comments below!  Thanks to those participating.