begin quoting Alan as of Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:19:30AM -0800: > > > > > According to what I've read, it was a naive substitute teacher, who > > didn't even know how to turn off the computer. We forget that really > > naive users are afraid to do the wrong thing, for fear they will wipe > > out everything on the computer and make it junk. The machine was > > infested with malware that called the popups, which displayed the > > "porn". She tried the entire day to hide the computer screen from the > > students. > > No one who cannot turn off a monitor has any business teaching children.
Or unplug the computer. > > For this she gets 40 years in prison? > > No doubt this is an idiotic sentence. Mabye it's mandatory sentencing laws? I like reading "The Magistrate's Blog" -- it kind of hilights some of the stupidities in our legal system, from the point of view from over the pond. > She should be fired for incompetence (along with the IT staff) but prison, Who made the decision to put M$ boxes in the classroom? That's the first head that should roll. > and for that matter even a trial, is just a waste of resources for > everyone involved. She's a substitute, right? Merely inform her that she'll no longer be an available selection. No muss, no fuss. (On the other hand, she's just gotten some real-world training in how to handle such things, so it's a bit of a waste to throw away such training -- assuming she learned anything.) -- The smaller the scale, the pettier the politics. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
