Our school has a fine network of computers, with the newest security, perfectly suited to stop children from playing Mario or Zelda in an emulator.
However, It has done nothing to stop, or even slow, the Unreal Tournament ring within the school. I guess this is our school's sport, since our "real" teams couldn't hit a ball to save their lives.
Anyway, All this blood and fire flying during research hour, now defunct yearbook classes, and lunch, and the worst situation our school has seen was a heated argument over wether sniping people off from accross a map with the Redeemer is fair.
The most violent dispute I've been in, in a long time, was a loud argument about when an attack was a rush, and when it was a preemptive attack. This was settled by a round of Quake: One kill, winner wins the argument.
One fistfight broke out, several months ago. Notably, this was between two students with no connection to the ring. No other incidents have emerged of any significance.
The school is dominated by a large contingent of people who play, love, and were raised on Doom, Starcraft, Myth, Quake, and Unreal. Although nobody would EVER call us normal, we are by no means violent. A common form of dispute resolution is a deathmatch. Winner takes all, looser is a collection of pixelated frag sprites, no hard feelings. (hard feelings are held for the rematch). Plus, after everyone has finished shooting their freinds, we can all go back to real life in one piece.
Hey, I go to this same school. And I must say that Bess is one of several things about that place:-(
Some of the dumb things that Bess has done over the past year: 1. Blocked several major homework-help sites. B. Blocked my site because of some obscure reference that they interpreted as a dirty joke. 3: Blocked dozens of CJI proxies that could be used to access educational content. 4. Not blocked very many porn sites (at least I have something to do during those boring classes:-)
At one point, Bess blocked several sites expressing distaste to Bess, to our school. It blocks a bunch of political sites. It for several days blocked its "Bess can't go there" page, causeing browsers to repeated try to load the block page! Any site that isn't blocked, and is visited by a student is blocked within a few days.
And don't get me started about the school! I won't comment on their lack of disciplinary or attendance policy, but I will comment on there technology policy.
This year, the district bought 2 sets of new computers. One of them was givin back, because the district discovered that the contract the signed required them to pay. The other set were some of the most powerful systems available at the time cheap enough to put one in every room of over a dozen schools. Then, they bog them down with multiple security programs, two (in some cases 3 or 4) different passwords to enter just to access them, and no way to access those 10 free gigs on the hard drives for student storage. Half the time, the computers crash at around the second password screen. Make it all worse, one of the "technicians" at one of the schools attached notes to the sides of computers with magnets.
At least this is better than the computers they used to have... I won't bug you with horror stories of overconfigured security on those things!
Now, worse comes to worse, and they sell data about what sites we try to visit. (I say try because 9/10 sites are blocked, and plenty of that last 1/10 are porn)
I'm glad I'll be graduating, and won't have to put up with the school, Bess, or the Reign of Kath-ros anymore. (Inside joke. Those who go to our school will understand.)
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Our school has a fine network of computers, with the newest security, perfectly suited to stop children from playing Mario or Zelda in an emulator.
However, It has done nothing to stop, or even slow, the Unreal Tournament ring within the school. I guess this is our school's sport, since our "real" teams couldn't hit a ball to save their lives.
Anyway, All this blood and fire flying during research hour, now defunct yearbook classes, and lunch, and the worst situation our school has seen was a heated argument over wether sniping people off from accross a map with the Redeemer is fair.
The most violent dispute I've been in, in a long time, was a loud argument about when an attack was a rush, and when it was a preemptive attack. This was settled by a round of Quake: One kill, winner wins the argument.
One fistfight broke out, several months ago. Notably, this was between two students with no connection to the ring. No other incidents have emerged of any significance.
The school is dominated by a large contingent of people who play, love, and were raised on Doom, Starcraft, Myth, Quake, and Unreal. Although nobody would EVER call us normal, we are by no means violent. A common form of dispute resolution is a deathmatch. Winner takes all, looser is a collection of pixelated frag sprites, no hard feelings. (hard feelings are held for the rematch). Plus, after everyone has finished shooting their freinds, we can all go back to real life in one piece.
Hey, I go to this same school. And I must say that Bess is one of several things about that place:-( Some of the dumb things that Bess has done over the past year: 1. Blocked several major homework-help sites. B. Blocked my site because of some obscure reference that they interpreted as a dirty joke. 3: Blocked dozens of CJI proxies that could be used to access educational content. 4. Not blocked very many porn sites (at least I have something to do during those boring classes:-) At one point, Bess blocked several sites expressing distaste to Bess, to our school. It blocks a bunch of political sites. It for several days blocked its "Bess can't go there" page, causeing browsers to repeated try to load the block page! Any site that isn't blocked, and is visited by a student is blocked within a few days. And don't get me started about the school! I won't comment on their lack of disciplinary or attendance policy, but I will comment on there technology policy. This year, the district bought 2 sets of new computers. One of them was givin back, because the district discovered that the contract the signed required them to pay. The other set were some of the most powerful systems available at the time cheap enough to put one in every room of over a dozen schools. Then, they bog them down with multiple security programs, two (in some cases 3 or 4) different passwords to enter just to access them, and no way to access those 10 free gigs on the hard drives for student storage. Half the time, the computers crash at around the second password screen. Make it all worse, one of the "technicians" at one of the schools attached notes to the sides of computers with magnets. At least this is better than the computers they used to have... I won't bug you with horror stories of overconfigured security on those things! Now, worse comes to worse, and they sell data about what sites we try to visit. (I say try because 9/10 sites are blocked, and plenty of that last 1/10 are porn) I'm glad I'll be graduating, and won't have to put up with the school, Bess, or the Reign of Kath-ros anymore. (Inside joke. Those who go to our school will understand.)