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AISD Teacher Throws Fit Over Student's Linux CD
Austinist ^ | Dec 10, 2008 | allenychen

Posted on 12/10/2008 5:23:13 PM PST by ari-freedom

In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of an operating system in class.

While teacher "Karen" was clearly operating under the assumption that she'd scored a minor victory for the Microsofts and other downtrodden software giants of the world, the particular operating system that she ended up disciplining her student for was a freely distributable version of Linux.

To wit, the following is part of an email that the teacher sent to the person who originally provided said Linux to the student

(Excerpt) Read more at austinist.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; linux; opensource
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1 posted on 12/10/2008 5:23:13 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: ari-freedom

Some of the dumbest people I know are teachers.


2 posted on 12/10/2008 5:27:42 PM PST by Scarchin (Withholding judgement)
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To: ari-freedom
Writeup on Slashdot: When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education, mentions response to teacher.
3 posted on 12/10/2008 5:30:33 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: Scarchin

Some of the dumbest people I know are teachers....and doctors and lawyers.


4 posted on 12/10/2008 5:32:15 PM PST by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging! ~ I am Joe!)
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To: ari-freedom

I like Linux, but it is not “there” yet.

Installing even a PCMCIA “G” card is a royal pain...worse then Wordperfect in text only mode...

As for the teacher...this is what Colleges are producing today?


5 posted on 12/10/2008 5:32:45 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: ari-freedom
Wow that guy REALLY let the teacher have it.

Stop Holding Our Kids Back.

6 posted on 12/10/2008 5:33:02 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: ari-freedom

My son’s high school science teacher guided him and others through building a website. Although the site was viewable from her own hard drive, it was not viewable through the Internet. I told her so in very nice terms, and I instructed her by e-mail, step by step, on how to correct the problem. She became enraged and hated me from then on.


7 posted on 12/10/2008 5:33:10 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: ari-freedom

Slowly shaking head

Walking away in disbelief...


8 posted on 12/10/2008 5:33:20 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Scarchin

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh my dear sweet zombie jesus.


9 posted on 12/10/2008 5:34:56 PM PST by utherdoul
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To: ari-freedom
I along with many others tried Linux during college

Miss Teacher, are you sure that isn't another L-word you tried during college?

10 posted on 12/10/2008 5:35:54 PM PST by KarlInOhio (11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
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To: padre35
Although I prefer NetBSD for the core developers' attention to kernel stability and security, my younger kid installed Ubuntu Linux on one of our older machines. It installed easier and faster than Windows. Everything works great with it--even the 3-D, first-person shooter games.
11 posted on 12/10/2008 5:37:40 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: ari-freedom

, I along with many others tried Linux during college

Dear God...was this before or after acid and group sex?...what a moron.


12 posted on 12/10/2008 5:38:57 PM PST by coolbreeze (giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
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To: Scarchin

Oh I have a stepsister who recently graduated from college and is teaching elementary school. She is dumb in a way you can’t even comprehend unless you actually spend time with her. How she ever graduated from a single college course, let alone obtained a degree, is something I will never understand. And God help those children in her classroom....they may never recover from her grammar.


13 posted on 12/10/2008 5:40:42 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Computer says No..... Carole Beer)
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To: Big Giant Head

Penguin Ping. :)


14 posted on 12/10/2008 5:41:42 PM PST by Marie Antoinette (Proud Clinton-hater since 1998.)
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To: familyop

I bought (yes..paid money...LOL!) for Ubuntu 8, it just didn’t do the trick, my older stuff just doesn’t have the horsepower to run it right.

And plug and play wireless networking is needed for Linux to be “there’ for me.


15 posted on 12/10/2008 5:41:48 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: Islander7
Some of the dumbest people I know are teachers....and doctors and lawyers

Beg to differ
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Occupations.aspx

16 posted on 12/10/2008 5:42:25 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: padre35

“I like Linux, but it is not “there” yet.”

it’s great for students. Let them have the opportunity to use a system that they can understand.


17 posted on 12/10/2008 5:42:31 PM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
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To: padre35
Same here, drivers for some stuff is a pain. I like SuSE, Knoppix, and Mandrake. One of these days, I will get around to Ubuntu.

I keep a Knoppix disc at work to help me diagnose problems. 95% of the time, it isn't the hardware, it is Windoze flaking out. It freaks some people out when I use a liveCD. Is there a Windoze equivalent out there? If so, it is probably pricey like the rest of MS.

18 posted on 12/10/2008 5:43:03 PM PST by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair! Star Wreck In The Pirkinning......)
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To: ari-freedom
observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop.

Those damn kids! Lookin' at teh pr0n on teh interweb!

No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.

You, Ma'am, are ignorant.

These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline.

Yeah. You're right. People like Bjarne Stroustrup, Tim Berners-Lee, and Jakob Nielsen are horrible, horrible people that should be shunned by proper society.

I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods.

HUH?! Wait... You.... My head hurts!

Was "Linux" slang for a drug or a deviant sex act back in the day?

This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer, and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all.

Bam! She knows Linux is free and open-source, so she knows damn well the kid wasn't doing anything illegal.

Or this is one helluva troll.

19 posted on 12/10/2008 5:43:38 PM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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To: KarlInOhio
I along with many others tried Linux during college

"Linux Until Graduation"

20 posted on 12/10/2008 5:44:55 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Zero tolerance does not mean putting up with Barack for the next 4 years - that's just punishment)
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