You're the MAN George! Thanks for the laugh this morning. Good humor good since. Have a good weekend everyone.
Bruce Stevens Technology Coordinator Wall Lake View Auburn Schools [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/21/02, tech-cord wrote: > I hope whoever was trying to unsubscribe got it done >before they receive this >epistle. I did have my pencils and >paper taken away for several days while >attending 4th grade >at the Ware Consolidated School. All the boys,( I believe >>there were 5 of us), had them taken away because someone >was writing nasty notes to >one of the girls in our class. >Obviously, it had to be one of the boys! Guess >what? The >notes continued until the girls lost their pencils too! Then the >>teacher got the brilliant idea of giving each of us a different >color of pencil. I >got a bright yellow that I could hardly read. I >was absent one day and the next >day I faced the Inquisition!! >This girl had received a nasty note with MY color. I >was >standing in front of god who was Mr. Macintosh, the >superintendent and >principal and the guy who handed out >spankings. I was petrified! He had the >fairness to ask me if I >did it. I said 'No, because I was gone yesterday.' At >which >time, my teacher apologized and felt bad about the false >accusation and we >all got our pencils and paper back. I was >somewhat of a local hero, for about a >half-hour. The teacher >thought that we should use our newly acquired paper and >>pencils to do an extra long math assignment. There is a >moral to the story >above. It doesn't matter what the >technology, there will always be abuses and >someone will >always try to fix the system, sometimes successfully, >sometimes not. >That's the nature of the beast. Its nice to >ask your peers what they're doing >but job security requires >finding out what the community wants. In our case, the >school >board made the call on email access for students. Their >wishes should >reflect the wishes of the people they >represent. No parent has asked for email >access for their >child. Special allowances have been made for staff members >that >wanted their students to use email for a particular >purpose. When its a part of the >curriculum, its allowed. >Computer usage has become so ingrained into our >>curriculum that over 300 computers on line is not enough. >Like someone else said, >if I give casual usage of email to all >students, it will detract from the time for >other usages. I might >feel differently if I had a bunch of computers available for >the >casual usage. I still don't think that would change the >community's >opinion. As Carroll said, some of us have >heard this email discussion many times >before. It still boils >down to what your community wants and not what we want. >>Personally, I think that we should teach all students on how to >properly stand >guard duty but I don't think that will happen. >Also, there should be a required >course for tech coordinators >and superintendents on how to find surplus property! >That >probably won't happen either. I hope this email brings at >least a slight >smile to everybody during this, the ugliest week >in Iowa education. George > >RFC822 header >----------------------------------- > Received: from aea5.k12.ia.us [207.28.96.10] by >wlva.k12.ia.us with ESMTP > (SMTPD32-6.06) id AB2A13CC01FE; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 >21:55:22 -0600 > Received: from hsinet.pocahontas.k12.ia.us [206.72.43.140] >by aea5.k12.ia.us > (SMTPD32-7.06) id AA761A901A0; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 >21:52:22 -0600 > Received: through eSafe SMTP Relay 1015787146; Thu >Mar 21 21:49:23 2002 > Received: from hs602 [172.16.2.49] by >hsinet.pocahontas.k12.ia.us > (SMTPD32-7.00) id AA3514500E4; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 >21:51:17 -0600 > Message-ID: ><009b01c1d154$a4d89540$[EMAIL PROTECTED] >.us> > From: "George Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tech-Cord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [tech-cord] email access for students > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:50:01 -0600 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="---- >=_NextPart_000_0098_01C1D122.5A2D5C60" > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE >V5.50.4807.1700 > Precedence: bulk > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail >(www.declude.com) for spam. > X-RCPT-TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: 579 > Status: U > --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/tech-cord@aea5.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
