Internet safety a priority as AG Stein visits Lenoir County - WITN

LENOIR COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - After visiting New Bern Wednesday morning, authorities Attorney General Josh Stein made an quality astatine a schoolhouse successful Lenoir County.

In the gym of Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School, Stein spoke to 6th graders astir a household tech agreement, with goals and hopes of facilitating conversations betwixt children and adults astir however to safely and responsibly usage the internet.

There are 4 principles successful the inaugural that say, successful part:

• I volition not speech to strangers online
• I volition beryllium cautious astir the accusation I stock online
• I volition pass with my household and friends and enactment safe
• I volition find a equilibrium with surface time

Stein says his ain weakness is Twitter.

“My woman tells maine I usage excessively overmuch Twitter and she is not incorrect and truthful recognizing that these issues beryllium for ourselves arsenic adults with our brains afloat formed truly underscores the value for kids not to go excessively babelike connected it and recognize that it tin truly impact their intelligence health,” Stein said.

Principal Heather Walston said she hopes the students speaking with Stein volition commencement conversations astatine home.

“The lawyer wide speaking to the 6th people was a precise bully determination due to the fact that 6th people is simply a pugnacious time; it’s a modulation clip for them, crossing implicit from simple to the large hall,” Walston said. “And they spell done a hard clip successful 6th grade. It’s hard for a batch of them. A batch of them bash autumn prey to online issues similar bullying.”

This is 1 of Stein’s galore initiatives to support kids. Others see teen vaping, investigating the intelligence wellness interaction TikTok and Facebook person connected kids, and drafting the SAFE Child Act successful 2019.

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