Posted on 02/12/2008 3:37:33 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
The parents of all 2,550 Palm Bay High School students received a phone call informing them that their child was due for weekend detention.
No, there was no coordinated uprising at the school. An accidental push of a button sent the automated call to the homes of the entire student body instead of the intended 16.
One parent didn't believe her son's protests that he had done nothing wrong and took him to school Saturday morning anyway. When they learned of the glitch, Amy Stewart took her son Jimmy to breakfast to make up for it.
Assistant superintendend Steve Muzzy called the problem "an unfortunate human mistake."
(Excerpt) Read more at wwsb.com ...
Public education in the information age strikes again! Will the person responsible for this get a demerit or bad grade?/s
There are days my wife wishes she could just push a button and send all her students to detention without the extra paperwork. :->
I love how there’s one button that sends it to every student’s home. More public education BS.
LOL. Classic.
If I were a student there, I’d be trying to figure out how to make it happen at will. With my own message. Oh... the fun to be had...
Oh man, this kid, Jimmy, could murder someone in the next Month and his Mother would laugh it off as another email error. A “get out of jail free card” lol
And we’re to trust these people with sensitive information on our children in their computers?
Weekend detention is a bunch of crap in my book.
There’s no way the school should have that kind of control over a kid’s life. Once school is out, that’s the end of where they can tell my kid where he has to spend his time. Weekends are his, not the school’s.
No, they’ll get detention.
Ugh there was a sped teacher in my high school who kept 504 and IEPs all “confidential” information scattered all over her desk and the classroom. Not to mention she used the same computer to do that type of work that her students used.
The height of incompetence and she was never punished for it.
how many arrests? how many tasered?
No, you’re not. What idiots.
LOL, my sister graduated from Palm Bay High School back in the Stone Ages!
You mean there’s no “Uh-oh” button? What the hell kinda system is this.
Oops, my bad, I forgot this is the Imperial Federal School System that screwed up. Never mind.
All the kids probably have done something detention-worthy anyway... they just haven’t gotten caught yet.
I wonder how many fessed up from it. Conscience check! LOL!
What a good Mom!
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This sounds a lot like “house arrest”.
Have you noticed how much school lingo resembles prison language:
Lock down.
Metal detectors
Zero tolerance
drug free zones
in-school detention
after school detention
dentention center
anti-bullying policies
gun-free zones
expulsion procedures
And,,,now,,,this is a new one: Weekend detention
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