Friday, January 9, 2004

stupid asshats

anyone here like computers? anyone here ever IM? net send? well, if you do this in school in texas, you have apparently broken the rules - although they have no stated rule about it. check out what this kid did and what other people think

as numerous people have pointed out - these are public addresses listed on public websites which are also through a public system, so i don't see a problem listing them here if you would like to share your thoughts:
Beverly Sweeny (Beverley_Sweeney birdville.k12.tx.us), Computer teacher and campus computer liaison.

Principal Tommy Rollins (Tommy_Rollins birdville.k12.tx.us)

for those of you who are too lazy to read the article, here's a choice quote:



Because Sweeney wrote her e-mail using her taxpayer-funded district e-mail account, it is a public document, and therefore, I quote it in full so we can all share insight into the mind of one of the educators who busted Carl for writing "Hey!"

..."I am speaking about one incident in the Birdville School District in which a student was expelled for tampering with the district's computers. Having been a computer teacher in the real world of public education for many years, let me say that suspension of students who are guilty of such tampering sends a message to all students that is beneficial and necessary.

"Students should not be of the opinion that it is acceptable to abuse the privileges that are afforded them by the taxpayers. If they are allowed to experiment and do things on the computers that the teachers have not specifically given them permission to do, we would never get any computer education accomplished.


UPDATE
fark has removed the link. you can still access the story, just not the fark comment board.

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