[huskerlug] 40 yrs in jail - what being computer illiterate can get you
- From: GreyGeek <jkreps@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:44:31 -0600
Teacher guilty in Norwich porn case
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/NEWS01/701060312/1002/NEWS17
"...while substituting for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly
Middle School, Amero claimed she could not control the graphic images
appearing in an endless cycle on her computer.
"The pop-ups never went away," Amero testified. "They were continuous."
I've subbed in public schools and keeping JR & SR high kids off porn
sites requires constant vigilance. They usually give themselves away
by their behavior: two or three (usually boys) huddled around a
monitor, giggling, and frequently looking up to see if the teacher is
noticing them. When I walked over to see what was so interesting
they'd click to another site. I'd use the back arrow to see where they
had been and if it was a porn site I turned off the computer for the
rest of the class period. THis was before the endless pop-up coding was
developed.
It is more likely that some of the students accessed the porn site and
when the teacher noticed what they were doing she she took control of
the PC and tried to delete the pop-ups. The problem was that those
kind of pop-ups are coded to regenerate themselves when they are
deleted. Also, many schools lock Explorer in a permanent display mode
so that the kids can't access the underlying desktop, which meant that
the teacher couldn't simply close IE. She could have turned off the
computer but there are usually signs present near those computers
warning not to do that, and most computer illiterate users (teachers or
not) would be afraid to do so.
IMO, that she was prosecuted for those pop-ups is nothing less than an
indication of how computer illiterate the prosecutor and his "expert"
are, to say nothing of her defense lawyer. The expert said "someone"
had to click on the link. Someone did, but the fact that the teacher
tried to kill the pop-ups proved that she wasn't the one, or she
wouldn't have tried to kill them.
This whole thing reeks of NIFongism (NIFong is the prosecutor in the
Duke "rape" case).
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