Follow-Up on installment 3 of "Pulling the stick out."

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Tech.MSNBC.com has a follow-up on the story of the teacher who was convicted for exposing students to pornography.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17134607/

It all began in October 2004. Amero was assigned to a class at Kelly Middle School in Norwich, a city of about 37,000 people about 40 miles east of Hartford.

Amero says that before her class started, a teacher allowed her to e-mail her husband. She says she used the computer and went to the bathroom, returning to find the permanent teacher gone and two students viewing a Web site on hairstyles.

Amero says she chased the students away and started class. But later, she says, pornographic images began popping up on the computer screen by themselves. She says she tried to click the images off, but they kept returning, and she was under strict orders not to shut the computer off.
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I believe this. The tech person who looked at this would probably need to see the problem for him/her self. Most of the time, spyware affects one account more than another - espically with Zenworks (which most school systems use).

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

But many remain skeptical, including Mark Steinmetz, who served on Amero’s jury.

“So many kids noticed this going on,” Steinmetz said. “It was truly uncalled for. I would not want my child in her classroom. All she had to do was throw a coat over it or unplug it. We figured even if there were pop-ups, would you sit there?”
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Has this twit ever gone to a school before. That sub covers the computer to stop the kids from seeing it and leaves the room, it just makes them want to get up and see it more.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Smith, the prosecutor, would not say what he plans to recommend when Amero is sentenced March 2. John Newsone, a defense attorney in Norwich familiar with the case, said Amero might be spared prison or face perhaps a year to 18 months.


Principal Scott Fain said the computer lacked the latest firewall protection because a vendor’s bill had gone unpaid. “I was shocked to see what made it through,” he said.

But Fain also said Amero was the only one to report such a problem: “We’ve never had a problem with pop-ups before or since.”


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Congragulations Principal Fain, you just managed to contradict yourself in one sentence and prove my point. You didn't have the problem when the bill was ongoing. You also didn't have the problem after the bill had been paid. Imagine that - the firewall software works!

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

PsyOps, please tell me the parent should have prevented these boys and their virgin-eyes from seeing this? Make my day!!!!

This case is possibly the dumbest thing ever. The school district made a mistake and a couple of obscure kids got to see something in school they're probably looking at at home anyways and instead of stepping up and taking responsibility, some substitute teacher (who's not that computer savvy) took the brunt.

I guess when the tech experts testified, the jurors were doing alot of because most of this was to them so they discredited their testimony all together.