Internet Pranks in Schools

Ferante125 writes "An interesting article about online pranks by students and teachers' responses to them. There are some interesting stats that sounded a little hard to believe. My immature side finds it funny and my more mature side is interested in the legal aspects." For the most part it seems like this article thinks pranks are basically just name calling and flaming on websites.

Comments

Lame

[Stanistani]

Obviously these students need to be indoctrinated in the latest Internet memes:
There were no rickrolls, and not even a single Longcat reference.

Re:Unlikely Statistic

[Anonymous Coward]

Dating.

Those aren't pranks...

[Thelasko]

Putting your high school up for sale is a prank.

Re: I guess I dodged a bullet

[spyrochaete]

It's always the low-tech pranks that take people the longest to fix.

I unintentionally freaked out my poor mom when I got smarmy and edited the Win98 logoff screen in mspaint. I changted a W to a T so that it said "It is not safe to turn off your computer." She left it like that for 3 days until I let her in on the joke. Oopsie.

Re:I guess I dodged a bullet

[Otto95]

In my day we pulled a prank where we changed the number of beads on the Math teachers abacus. Oh man, I'm old!

Re:I guess I dodged a bullet

[greeze]

When I was in university, I worked in the campus computer lab. One night after hours, a friend of mine and I recorded 35 distinct and separate fart sounds. They were all very small toots: a squeak here, a poot there... they all sounded like the farts you try to sneak out when you're in a public space, but they come out a little louder than you'd hoped. We then set each of them as the hourly chime on all 35 of the Mac 8500's in the Mac lab. Since the clocks on all the Macs were off by anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, the farts didn't all sound at the same time.

It would start a few minutes before the hour: over there in the corner of the room you'd hear a little "squeee." The poor CS student working on his midterm would look around, embarrassed. A few seconds later, another student's machine would respond with, "brrrt." As the hour approached, the farts got closer to each other until the entire lab was abuzz with flatus. And as the hour receded into the past, the farts would peter out slowly.

It took several days before the staff finally caught on to what was happening.

Re:Yet another case made for homeschooling...

[VisceralLogic]

Homeschooling just segregates them even more and inhibits their socialization. The fact that you want to choose with whom they socialize is kind of disturbing. They aren't some sort of pet that you get to train. You should allow children to grow and develop with guidance, rather than follow some sort of path that you want to vicariously travel. In my opinion it's homeschooling that will hinder your potential child's socialization, rather than public schools.

I was going to point out that I was home-schooled through high school, and am perfectly well socialized... but then I remembered where I was posting this. :)