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My brother did this exact same thing (competing with his friend to try to make as many folders as possible), only he got a 1 week suspension for "hacking". The
by jamoes 14y ago
My brother did this exact same thing (competing with his friend to try to make as many folders as possible), only he got a 1 week suspension for "hacking". The IT manager was really pissed and pressed the school administrators to make an example out of them.
I was outraged. Basically, the IT manager preferred to use punishment as his means of security, rather than actually doing his job.
- johngalt 14y agoBeing able to break something =/= IT not doing their job. Tossing a brick through a window doesn't mean that the window should have been thicker.
- adimitrov 14y agoExcept that this was not 'tossing a brick,' it was maybe knocking on a window to see what sound it makes, and the window then falling apart for no apparent reason. There is nobody to blame for this, actually. Neither could the kid have known that this was bad (and the child-like curiosity is hardly something worth a punishment,) nor could the sysadmin really do anything to prevent it, except hang up a memo: please don't do that. Though, in that case, you'd have some kids doing that over and over again out of a very different kind of curiosity.
- gizmo686 14y agoI agree that we should not punish kids for expermentation (I am outraged when schools do anything other than encourage it). However, if playing around with a computer causes notable damage, I do have to wonder what would happen with viruses or someone who is actually malicius.