Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:43AM 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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Re:Rouge? by gEvil+(beta) · 2007-12-17 07:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Alright. Let's not get into what the cosmetic companies do or don't do to animals during testing, okay?

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Re:UPDATE! Cory Doctorow just reported... by sexconker · 2007-12-17 07:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Mod parent up informative.