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Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank

Posted by Zonk on from the we've-all-got-priorities dept.

Earnest writes "A prank MySpace page has led to a barrage of lawsuits and the misuse of school resources as the principal targeted by the pranksters attempted to find the perpetrators. In 2005, students at Hickory High School in Pennsylvania created a fake MySpace profile of principal Eric Trosch. As a result, the school's IT staff spent about 25 percent of his work time dealing with the issue and finding the culprits. That's not all. 'Trosch kept at it, even taking measures that led to the "cancellation of computer programming classes as well as usage of computers for research for class projects." Now the basic educational mission of the school was being compromised in order to keep students from visiting these profiles during school hours (students were still free to look at the profiles from home, of course).'"

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  1. Re:Too sensitive.... by AIFEX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While my boss might disagree, I wouldn't call reading Slashdot at work time wasting :P

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  2. Re:And any K-12 school IT staff worth their salt.. by EvilGrin666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, I'm an school IT tech. I can't be that useless if I'm posting on slashdot!

  3. Re:Remember.. by jridley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heh, I think I'd just whack the side of one of the cans with a big stick. It'd crumple, and then the other three would too. A little screeching of metal would then get the car off.

  4. Re:Something doo economics. Anyone? Anyone? by endianx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Who needs to be able to search the web for research purposes or to lean how to code?" It would help if you knew how to spell. Use firefox with the built in spell-checker. 'Lean' is spelled correctly. I am not certain how spell-checker would be of use in this situation.
  5. Re:Litigation, Litigation, Litigation by spickus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is corporate punishment when the greeter at Walmart kicks your ass?

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  6. Re:This is not about MySpace. by BVis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like to call people like that "wicked fucking stupid."

    It takes less effort to type "lose" than it does to type "loose". Why would you go out of your way to be wrong?

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