Teens and the Internet - Pew Internet and American Life Project

For me, the most interesting finding of the Pew study was that 32% of all teens do not use the internet at school, eventhough most (99%) have access to the internet at school. Why are these teens not accessing the internet at school? The study's findings suggest that the reason is not economic and suggests the problem might be one of accessibility. Another reason could be that some teachers do not use the internet in their classroom lessons or some teens might not be taking classes in which internet use is more likely to occur. I would have liked some more follow-up questions on this issue.

One more alarming statistic is that 75% of teens report going online at someone else's home. As a parent, that statistic is surprising, because I wonder who is monitoring these teens or if they are being monitored at all. It has been my experience that some teens will try to access inappropriate websites and/or do some questionable things through the internet. Even when I have older children over at my house, I do not let them on my computer. I do not want to be responsible for what they might get into if I step out of the room.