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Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the teacher-actually-an-opera-fanatic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several sites are reporting that a student has been given detention for using Firefox to do his classwork. No, really. The student was in class, working on an assignment that necessitated using a browser. The teacher instructed him to stop using Firefox and to do his classwork, to which the student responded that he was doing his classwork using a 'better' browser (it is unclear whether the computer was the student's own computer or not). The clueless teacher (who called the rogue program 'Firefox.exe') ordered him to detention." Update: 12/17 20:09 by SM One of the school officials was nice enough to contact us and let us know this is a hoax. If you are planning on calling the school please refrain from doing so, I'm sure they have had enough excitement for one day.

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  1. OSS is evil. by jez9999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The teacher was right. We have to stop this communism right here, right now!

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    1. Re:OSS is evil. by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Exactly, schools aren't there to teach creativity, they're supposed to teach conformity and acceptance. And I damn sure want to keep it that way because I'm creative, I like my job security, and I need schools to churn out people to fix my plumbing so I don't have to crawl around under my house. I would hope my fellow /.ers would feel the same.

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  2. Ah. by Stanistani · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we can all safely jump to conclusions here and make some truly insane comments - GO!

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  3. Some things never change by ComaVN · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haha, reminds me of how I got yelled at by an irate "computer-science" teacher ages ago, for breaking a monitor (ie. turning it off with the big red power button on the front)

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  4. at least not opera by Soleen · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder would he get an A from music teacher for using Oepra?

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  5. Re:detention for disobedience by Hes+Nikke · · Score: 5, Funny

    this is slashdot, we don't use logic here. for that you need to go to.... um... not the internet!

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  6. it's in Illinois by name_already_taken · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where, pray tell, is this place known as "Idiocity"?

    According to Google Maps it's at the Art Institute of Chicago

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