From the Inquirer
Virginia DiMedio, who as the Lower Merion district's technology director until she retired last summer helped launch the laptop initiative, said yesterday: "If there was a report that a computer was stolen, the next time a person opened it up, it would take their picture and give us their IP [Internet protocol] address - the location of where it was coming from."
No one is saying what the student is accused of doing.
If he told them the laptop was stolen and then the school district enabled that security feature and found out he was lying to them.
But anything else and it's Jail Time
I am unfamiliar with how these ‘give a student a laptop’ programs work.
1. What prevents students from simply selling the laptop and then claiming it was stolen. What prevents them from then claiming the replacement laptop was stolen?
2. If the teacher is assigning work that requires a laptop what prevents a student from demanding an endless string of replacement laptops?
3. How do the students get internet at home, if parents don’t have it? Do they have some form of wide area wireless?
4. Is any effort made to prevent the laptops from becoming mobile XXX-rated peepshows, do they have anti-porn filters?
5. Given the fact that a year’s support of a single laptop, in a corporate environment, typical costs more than the laptops purchase price. How are the laptops supported? Who and how many and how much does it cost to keep these laptops up and running. Assuming the kids are prone to go to music download, celeb and porn sites which are notorious for infecting computers how are they maintained?