[clug-talk] Teacher gives student a detention for using Linux

[Graham Monk]

Please don't, if you insist, read this first.

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/character-assasinations-aint-us.html

Graham

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM, TekBudda <tekbudda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gustin Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Amusing and scary, all at the same time:
>>
>> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/242520/teacher-threatens-to-call-the-cops-over-linux.html
>
> Hi All,
>
> In case anyone is interested, it looks like the teacher works at Covington
> Middle school, which is part of the Austin Independent School District, in
> Austin, Texas.
>
> If it is the teacher I think it is, she looks to be a Grade 7/8 Language
> Arts teacher.  Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Language Arts & English
> classes about be open to new forms of communication & understanding things?
>  Hmmm...maybe she skipped class that day while she "tried Linux during
> college"
>
> Here area couple links:
> * Auston Independent School District (AISD): http://www.austinisd.org
> * Convington Middle School:
> http://www.austinisd.org/schools/website.phtml?id=027
>
> You can find a staff directory & contact information for the school, the
> principal & the teacher under the staff section.  I am contemplating contact
> the district, the school & the principal at the very least to express my
> concern.  Maybe I should contact the various government levels in charge of
> education as well.  Should be a fun way to cause some trouble.
>
> TekBudda
>
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