Re: [LM_NET] Amero: Scarier and scarier

[Dawn Sardes <yayagoddess@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

I wonder if the school had one of theose classroom management systems where 
attendance and the number of kids buying the hot lunch v the cold is logged and 
messaged vuia the network.
   
  I was doing some subbing back when these were first coming out and remember 
having a teache rlog me in and tell me to not, under any circumstances, turn it off.
   
  As a sub, too, I was, in most schools, instructed to be out in that hall during 
class changes time.  This often meant that I'd be out there while students would be 
coming into the classroom, getting into mischief, playing "let's get the sub in 
trouble."
   
  I subbed in one high school and while I was out in that hall, one day some 10th 
graders took a print the teacher was particularly fond of off the wall and hid it, 
probably in a bookbag.  
   
  I never even noticed it missing. I had never even noticed it to begin with.  The 
next day, I was asked to come in, the teacher was upset, I was accused of stealing 
it.  It was found propped behind a boys toilet somewhere a few days later, I'd 
heard, but I was never apologized too and the incident was treated as if it were my 
fault and I was dropped from the sub list.
   
  I read one article that stated that when she came into the class, several kids 
were already around the computer.
   
  It only takes a second or two for someone to type  three w's, a few periods and 
some filthy word.
   
  I wouldn't be surprised if one of these poor innocents had done it him or herself.
   
  About three years ago, at the reference desk of my library, an elderly patron 
asked me to get the contact info of the Swedish embassy.  As soon as I clicked on 
the homepage, all these filthy pop-ups began coming up.  It was like niagara Falls. 
I immediately clicked off the monitor and then held in the power button until the 
machine turned off.  We even HAD pop-up blockers and anti-spy and virus ware. I 
guess someone had hacked into the embassy site.
   
  But, when I turned it on again, they began again and I had to call our techie 
dude to come take it and give it a good cleansing.
   
  How sad all this is for that woman.  I know my own hubby often panics when the 
computer suddenly goes haywire.  I can see this happening to him, knowing he NEEDED 
that pc during the course of the day, was told not to turn it off, etc.


Dawn Sardes
Teen Services Librarian
Euclid Public Library
Euclid, OH
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