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  1. Re:so what? by Descalzo · · Score: 1 · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]
    Where did you find the transcript of the student/teacher conversation? I followed the link and found nothing.

    I find it extremely easy to believe this kid got busted for dinking around and made up this story, even to the faking of a document.

    Check this link out. Someone else in this thread pointed it out, but hasn't as yet been modded.

  2. Re:Here's his teacher by VJ42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    "harrass"[sic] That is what we call in the industry a 'mistake'. This you would know from the fact that you typed 'nowhere' as two words. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. You're right I apologise.

    Considering that the article is in fact a hoax, So I noticed.

    I hope you're prepared to accept the consequences of doing so. What exactly would they be? All I did was link to publicly available information. I didn't do anything further with it myself, what others did with it is up to them. If anyone really did abuse it (and I doubt that they did; any looneys would have looked up the info themselves) they will have to live with the consequences, not me.

    Aside: I note that my original post has earned me what I think is my first ever troll mod though, I can't say that it wasn't deserved, flamebait was uncalled for though.
  3. Re:Here's his teacher by Macthorpe · · Score: 2 · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    "harrass"[sic] That is what we call in the industry a 'mistake'. This you would know from the fact that you typed 'nowhere' as two words. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

    Indeed I even went to the length of typing *stands well back* in order to distance myself from what people wish to do with the information I provided. Whatever you need to tell yourself to help you sleep at night. Considering that the article is in fact a hoax, I hope you're prepared to accept the consequences of doing so.
  4. Fake? by BeanBagKing · · Score: 2, Informative · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]
    http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2131

    Response to Internet Hoax
    December 17, 2007

    Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student. Unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent the School District from giving a full explanation of the nature and source of the letter's alteration at this time. The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the discipline letter was altered.

    The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given, if students continue to engage in non-academic activities or fail to follow a teacher's directive during class time discipline can and will be assigned.

    Sincerely yours,

    John C. Scudder

    Don't get me wrong, I'm usually not on the school's side, but a student with computer knowledge altering a document to gain popularity and to raise a cry from everyone on the internet over this isn't unheard of. So who are we to believe? High School Principal

  5. Re:Student's Side. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    It looks like what really happened was that the kid got caught playing some game instead of running a web browser, got detention, scanned the detention letter in and changed it up a bit, and posted it to try to make it look like his teacher an idiot instead of him.

    http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130

  6. check the school's website by sydney+troz · · Score: 1 · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    There's a note from the principle that says the letter was modified, and the information floatin around on the net is untrue. http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2131

  7. Detention is FAKE by sykopomp · · Score: 1 · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    ...according to the school. They just did a press release. Apparently, whoever uploaded the picture altered it. http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130&PHPSESSID=cf4be39ed120b93f823997c95b3533a9

  8. Is a hoax? by ChrisMounce · · Score: 1 · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    So apparently some kid who got detention 'shopped the letter and posted it online as a hoax:

    http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130

  9. Re:OSS is evil. by gt_mattex · · Score: 5, Informative · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]
    This entire story is possibly based on erroneous information.

    http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130

  10. Re:Here's his teacher by Boap · · Score: 1 · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    The offending teacher is P. Bealmear and she is a Bus. Ed. Career Project Teacher http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/staff_directory.php?action=view_profile&person_id=1116&PHPSESSID=9f78f61e5bdb80de29e2dfd3f9b1b55a

  11. Here's his teacher by VJ42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    Anyone want to contact his teacher? or at least /. the school website?

    *stands well back*

  12. Here's his teacher by VJ42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

    Anyone want to contact his teacher? or at least /. the school website?

    *stands well back*