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Being 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.
by johngalt 14y ago
Being 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.