On 7/18/05, Jesse the man viciouskatana.man@gmail.com wrote:
My English teacher at my high school allows us to use Wikipedia. Of course, I come from a high school, not an elementary school.
And here we have the question of just when children can be expected to act in a responsible and unsupervised manner. Do children all reach such a point at eighteen years of age? Any other arbitrary point?
My experience is that chidren become responsible at different ages, and at the risk of gross generalisation, it seems to me that girls grow up a lot earlier than boys.
Having a teacher decide whether students are adult enough to use (and edit) Wikipedia on their own sounds reasonable to me. In fact many high school students display breathtaking intelligence and insight and would be valued contributors.
It could equally be said that many adults should be supervised by someone responsible, judging by the sort of behaviour we so often see.