Thanks Art, good catch. I'm going to however pick a nit on this article though..it could be just bad writing on the reporter's part or perhaps not.
*The district says it turned on the camera in Robbins' computer because, since he had not paid a $55 insurance fee, he should not have been taking it home. *That implies that the student had taken it home more than once and that the school knew it. As in they knew who took it, and could have just phone the kids house. Instead they turn the camera on and then watch long enough to see him snort fun-dip and accuse him of drug taking/selling...no mention of taking the laptop home and the 55 dollar fee. Why not? According to this reporter at least, the school admin knew when they turned it on who had the laptop. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Art Clemons <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/07/2010 11:20 PM, mike wrote: > > I haven't seen it, but perhaps you have..a definitive statement that the > > school thought the laptop was in fact stolen? I keep seeing vague things > > like 'security was used in case it was missing or stolen', but never that > in > > this case they had turned it on because of that. And again, if it was > > stolen by this kid why was only the 'drugs' brought up to the parents? > > If you check the news story from the Philadelphia Inquirer, you'll note > that because a $55 insurance fee wasn't paid, the laptop was supposed to > remain in school. The laptop was instead taken home and apparently some > form of inventory occurred which lead to discovering that said laptop > was missing. You'll note that there is no disputing that the laptop in > question was removed from the school without permission. > > http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/86505452.html > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
