OT CT Sub looks at 40 Years

Now we know what Cathy does in her spare time....

I predict she'll be found NOT guilty. Then, with all her "SUPPORTERS" will go on to protest the war in Iraq, meet with the terrorists and claim a victory over GWB, ect ect....

She has already been found guilty. The next step is sentencing.

The kids were innocent. They shouldn't have been in the classroom without a teacher, but that was not the sub's fault.

While the action against the sub is unfortunate, at best, the reality is that the kids did nothing wrong, except, perhaps, look at a web site without permission when there was no teacher in the room.

The sub should have yanked the power cord on the computer, though.

Neither the sub nor the students should be punished. The school district should have made sure that there was appropriate filtering so those sorts of websites would not be visible and appriate antivirus and antispyware, so that the computer wouldn't be infected. The school, with its lack of proper computer safeguards and training and supervision of subs is, imho, at fault here.

Jeff

this is about as ridiculous a case as I've ever heard of. It should never have come to trial. And the possible sentence to be imposed is beyond draconian. Often drunk drivers who decimate a family are given a jail sentence of a few months, yet this teacher (who was not even at the computer at the time the images appeared) faces 40 years in prison? Hell, why not just burn the witch as they did in Salem? I can't bring myself to believe that such a thing could happen in Connecticut....or any other place.

One question: will content filtering - I would assume the district has installed a filtering program?! - block out pop-ups like these or not? (A techie I'm not.)

One hindsight suggestion for that sub: she could've taped a piece of paper over the monitor if she couldn't get the images to go away, since she was told to not shut off the computer. Or, was it possible for her to just log off, to tame it?

Cathy

Obviously you think the same as I do. It wasn't intentional. If she had stayed in the ladies room, would the prosecutor gone after the full time teacher for leaving the class unsupervised? It seems to me the pop-ups would have happened and been blamed on the next person who used the mouse. By the sound of it, nobody but nobody knew much about computers in this cozy little school system. The prosecutor went for the throat of the least important player.

When I was a freshman in high school, my first day I got detention. I was in the men's room, about ready to leave, and an upper classman walked in, handed me a lit cigarette and said, Hold this for me for a moment. I wasn't about to drop it and then get my ass kicked. No, instead a hall monitor walked in, saw me with the butt and turned me in. It was all planned ahead of time. I found out the hall monitor was in on it too.

The principle knew the other student who gave me the butt. Star player. Me? Least important player.