Monday, December 17th 2007
High School Student Gets Detention for Using Firefox
Apparently, the Firefox crowd needs to raise awareness of what exactly Firefox does. A high school student was doing his assignments using the internet browser, and got this note home from the teacher...
Source:
The Inquirer
To the Parent(s)/Guardian(s) of [Redacted], Grade 11The teacher who issued this letter is proof that Firefox simply needs to step up their advertising campaign. The teacher that issued this detention had no idea how to even spell the program name, let alone what it did. Granted, the teacher probably gave this detention out of safety protocol. After all, if you saw a foreign program running on a lot of expensive computers you didn't own, wouldn't you want it out of your systems?
This is to inform you [Redacted] has been assigned a(n) Detention.
Today in class [redacted] had a program launched called Foxfire.exe [sic]. I had told [redacted] to close the program and to resume work but he told me that it was just a different browser and that he was doing his work. I had given him two warnings but he insisted that it was just a 'better' browser and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. I had then issued his detention
74 Comments on High School Student Gets Detention for Using Firefox
guess what i did for them the 1st week they got them :D....mind you these are locked down to the point were they couldnt run anything not on the windows boot up screen ctrl+alt+dlt and the start menu were blocked ;)
they all got a nice custom linux distro for there usb drives :roll: it ran beautifully god bless linux :D
What else can I say?
I guess the off-beat name "FireFox" is to blame. The admin at my high-school first thought FF was a game (off-beat name + icon). We had to later take a class on the Netscape story.
Had the teacher known what Firefox was, I bet all this wouldn't have happened. What if he just used plain old IE? Would he have been punished? The letter shows the kid being kicked for using an off-beat application more so than using the internet.
Good times :pimp:
Our systems are completely blocked you guys would have a hard time doing anything.
exe from thumb drives are locked
start up safe mode hack is locked
bios passworded
etc
proxied out to the max, although you can get results by spreading the letters apart :roll: P R O X Y
Pretty much bulletproof system
Sorry PVTCaboose1337 :p
I don't care if you do think it is 'better', don't use it on computers that aren't yours, and don't continue to use it on computers that aren't yours after you have been told not to. It isn't God's gift to browsers, you don't need it to browse the internet.
and it was just ie with tabs back in the old days, dk about today
How this story made it past the classroom and onto the internet is beyond me, but at least it gives me something to complain about. I'd rather my tax dollars not be wasted fixing computers that get ruined by kids like this. Not that he ruined THAT particular computer, but I'm sure this little hellion caused his fair share of damage to school property--and he probably had a lousy excuse for that too.
www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130
They received so much spam on that email that was on the letter, my friend even tried calling them up :p
By the time i was 16 i had a full beard.