At 08:16 PM 5/3/2007 +0300, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: >"An American student who made a Counter Strike map of Clements High School has been arrested and sent to an "Alternative Education Center". >
In the interests of using information from a source more objective than a gamer site, see: http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2854/phone-call-a-day-after-virginia-tech-sh ootings-led-to-clements-students-punishment Your attention is invited to the following sentence: "The boy, whose name was released in the police report, has not been identified on FortBendNow because he has not been charged with any crime." http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2862/school-district-violated-clements-gamer s-1st-amendment-rights-lawyer-says "Alternative Education Center" beats the crap out of being expelled a few days before graduation. They had a complaint from another parent. They couldn't ignore it. Whether they overacted or not is subjective. It seems the process of working through the school board and, if necessary, the courts is working, albeit slowly and with some foot-dragging. No bureaucrat wants to be publicly, let alone high-profile, found to have made a mistake. "Take it like a man and admit your stupidity" is an option, but a difficult one for some. "Stupidity cannot be cured with money or through education or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." -Robert Heinlein _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
