On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:49 AM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Between that statement and the one from school admin about knowing who took > the machine before they turned on the remote software, it looks like they > are going to fry themselves.
To determine if the student who was issued the computer, but who took it home when he was not supposed to, actually had possession of it, the camera did not have to be activated along with the capturing of images of whatever he was doing on the computer. All they needed to do was obtain his IP address. The school now is claiming that they saw and read some of his e-mail as well. The school claims that they read an e-mail addressed to the student that appeared to be threatening to him, which in turn caused them to want to capture images of the student to see if he was in any imminent danger. The claim of seeing a threatening e-mail, along with images of the student eating something that they assumed to be drugs, caused administrators to think the student was involved in selling drugs. However, upon talking to the student as well as his parents about this back in November of 2009, nothing about the threatening e-mail was ever mentioned. Additionally, it appears as though the 15 year old student was confronted by the Vice Principal about his alleged drug use before the parents were told if it. That would be a very, very bad move to have been made. Seems like a lot of overreaching by school administrators. Just conjecturing a little bit, I wonder if the rush to assume that the student was taking drugs as well as possibly selling them had anything to do with the fact that the student, Blake Robbins, was not of the same high ranking socio-economic class as the bulk of the student body? Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
