Comment Re:Student's Side. (Score 1) 818
Actually, the facts listed in the article aren't the student's side at all. If you google for more coverage of this incident you can find a scan of the detention notice, which gives the teacher's reasoning for issuing the detention.
"Today in class ___ had a program launched called Foxfire.exe. I had told ___ to close the program and to resume work but he told me that it was just a different browser and that he was doing his work. I had given him two warnings but he insisted that it was just a "better" browser and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. I had then issued his detention."
It doesn't sound like the work required IE at all, nor does it say anything about installing unauthorized programs, just that the teacher thought the kid wasn't working. Of course the teacher doesn't explicitly state the reason for the detention anywhere in all of that. If this were my kid I would have had to phone the school.
"Today in class ___ had a program launched called Foxfire.exe. I had told ___ to close the program and to resume work but he told me that it was just a different browser and that he was doing his work. I had given him two warnings but he insisted that it was just a "better" browser and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. I had then issued his detention."
It doesn't sound like the work required IE at all, nor does it say anything about installing unauthorized programs, just that the teacher thought the kid wasn't working. Of course the teacher doesn't explicitly state the reason for the detention anywhere in all of that. If this were my kid I would have had to phone the school.
