Now this is a sad story … if it ’s true . According to this aver schoolhouse paper , one student received a detention for using Firefox — as oppose to IE or Safari , we sham . And while there could be pot of explanation for why the school would want to verify student browsers , we love the instructor ’s write - up of the event :
Today in course of study [ name ] had a programme launched shout Foxfire.exe . I had told [ name ] to come together the political platform and to resume work but he tell me that is was just a different web browser app and that he was doing his work . I had open him two warnings but he insist that it was just a “ better ” internet browser and he was n’t doing anything wrong . I had then issued his detention .
Either this is the funniest detention we ’ve ever seen or the expert viral merchandising in story . But the school , phone number and names on the news report seem to be legit .
It ’s OK , faceless teenager . High school is tougher for the bright kids , if only because it ’s the last luck the universe has to quetch you in the chunk before you take it over . [ imageviadigg ]
UPDATE : This was a frivolity . From the schooling ’s website :
latterly , a file was uploaded to the net purpose to be a copy of a alphabetic character from Big Spring High School to a bookman regarding a two hour detention . The uploaded letter was an neutered rendering of a detention varsity letter sent to a student . Unfortunately , privacy concerns forestall the School District from giving a full explanation of the nature and source of the letter ’s alteration at this time . The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the field of study letter of the alphabet was altered .
The reports , web log and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was allot custody for using the Firefox internet web browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter . Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given , if students go along to engage in non - pedantic activities or flunk to follow a instructor ’s directive during class prison term discipline can and will be assign .
Sincerely yours ,
John C. Scudder
High School Principal
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