This is a timely news article as students begin to head back to start a new school year. Illinois lawmakers have written a bill that will require students to take classes on Internet safety for the 2009-2010 school year. This is similar to the measures VA legislators took to make it mandatory for public schools to teach their students about the potential risks and consequences they can encounter online. I think we'll begin to see more and more states adopting this important idea. Because students are often bullied by their classmates, kids need to receive information from their teachers and school administrators on what to do when they are cyberbullied or are encountering other problems on the Internet. The more we can educate our children on this issue the smarter -- and safer -- they will become while surfing the net.