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Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity?

Posted by Cliff on from the punishing-them-for-the-mistakes-of-others dept.

yamamushi asks: "Within the past few weeks, students across Boerne ISD were being called into offices to discuss the use of proxies to circumvent the schools websense system. The problem is that some of these students are being suspended from school for up to 3 months at a time. Shouldn't the school district be liable for their own insecurity? Why are they punishing so many students for something that should be handled from the district's end? I know at the time I was going to school there, I was punished for using a Linux LiveCD to login to their computers without using a password, even after I told the admins how to disable booting from CD-ROMs. They refused to update any of the computers and as such I was using the same tactic till the day I graduated." While security breaches by students are something to take seriously, should school administrations continue with their knee-jerk mentality to something like this, especially at the times when its obvious that no malicious intent was involved?

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  1. Re:Of course they should. by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Seriously, I can't believe you said that. Child porn? Where the hell did that come from?

    Not that it's mentioned in the question at all, but I guarantee you that this is what happened.

    Parent: "ZOMGBABYRAPERSONTHEINTERNETS!!1!1"

    School: "What?"

    Parent: "Don't you watch TV? Some man tried to buttrape Miss America on Facebook!

    School: "Fine. We'll block Myspace and Facebook at school."

    Parent: "THINK OF THE CHILDREN FOR GREAT JUSTICE!"

    one day later on answers.yahoo.com...

    ASHLEYROX: N E 1 no how to get on myspace at skool?
    LiLbAbIsExIgUrL: What are prxies?
    xXmandiXx: Anyone have working proxies?
    PoNyGiRl: I NEED MYSPACE PROXIES PLZ PLZ PLZ!!

    School: We can't block every proxy site out there, so we're just going to start suspending you if you won't stay off the fucking Facebook. Miss America got sodomized by a boar that way, you know?

    Teens: WE NEEDS OUR FACESPACEBOOK!!

    School: Banhammer.

    Parents: HOW DARE YOU SUSPEND MY PRECIOUS, PERFECT, ANGEL DUMPLING! CALL SCANDALCHANNEL 10 AND THE NEWS CHOPPA!

    School: Sigh.

    Parents: Class-action lawsuit against involved party with most liquid cash.

  2. Re:Of course they should. by xerxesVII · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't there be an "I'm chargin mah lazers!" somewhere in there?

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