I predict she'll be found NOT guilty. Then, with all her "SUPPORTERS"
will go on to protest the war in Iraq, meet with the terrorists and
claim a victory over GWB, ect ect....
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I've not been bothered with this type of popup for a couple or so years.
But I do remember a few years agothat you I could be doing something and all
the sudden a whole series of these porn site pop-ups would hit the screen
that I couldn't delete as fast as they appeared. I do now use a blocker, as
I'm sure most of us do.
But who knows in this case? Obviously lid should have been closed (it was a
portable?) or turned off.
I've been fooling around with computers since my Kaypro 8088 in the late
80's and gotta admit some of these new on/off switche locations defeat me
for a time.
The kids were innocent. They shouldn't have been in the classroom without a
teacher, but that was not the sub's fault.
While the action against the sub is unfortunate, at best, the reality is
that the kids did nothing wrong, except, perhaps, look at a web site without
permission when there was no teacher in the room.
The sub should have yanked the power cord on the computer, though.
Neither the sub nor the students should be punished. The school district
should have made sure that there was appropriate filtering so those sorts of
websites would not be visible and appriate antivirus and antispyware, so
that the computer wouldn't be infected. The school, with its lack of proper
computer safeguards and training and supervision of subs is, imho, at fault
here.
this is about as ridiculous a case as I've ever heard of. It should never
have come to trial. And the possible sentence to be imposed is beyond
draconian. Often drunk drivers who decimate a family are given a jail
sentence of a few months, yet this teacher (who was not even at the computer
at the time the images appeared) faces 40 years in prison? Hell, why not
just burn the witch as they did in Salem? I can't bring myself to
believe that such a thing could happen in Connecticut....or any other place.
The picture caption reads: "Substitute teacher Julie Amero, seen with
husband Wes Volle, faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of
exposing seventh-grade students to pornographic images on their classroom
computer in Norwich, Conn." She has already been convicted, as it clearly
states in the third paragraph: "She was convicted...."
They say hindsite is 20/20. Not in this case. Then again, the abreviation
for et cetera is "etc.," not "ect."
My better half said she would have pulled the power cord. When I reminded
her the teacher was told not to shut off the computer for any reason my
wife's response was, " I guess that was one reason they hadn't thought of."
One question: will content filtering - I would assume the district has
installed a filtering program?! - block out pop-ups like these or not? (A
techie I'm not.)
One hindsight suggestion for that sub: she could've taped a piece of paper
over the monitor if she couldn't get the images to go away, since she was
told to not shut off the computer. Or, was it possible for her to just log
off, to tame it?
Obviously you think the same as I do. It wasn't intentional. If she had
stayed in the ladies room, would the prosecutor gone after the full time
teacher for leaving the class unsupervised? It seems to me the pop-ups would
have happened and been blamed on the next person who used the mouse.
By the sound of it, nobody but nobody knew much about computers in this cozy
little school system. The prosecutor went for the throat of the least
important player.
When I was a freshman in high school, my first day I got detention. I was in
the men's room, about ready to leave, and an upper classman walked in,
handed me a lit cigarette and said, Hold this for me for a moment. I wasn't
about to drop it and then get my ass kicked. No, instead a hall monitor
walked in, saw me with the butt and turned me in. It was all planned ahead
of time. I found out the hall monitor was in on it too.
The principle knew the other student who gave me the butt. Star player. Me?
Least important player.
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