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Meddling kids

Meddling kids

Students Suspended for Calling Teacher Pedophile on Facebook, Principal Violates Privacy to Find Out

by James Plafke | 12:00 pm, March 6th

Two students at Chapel Hill Middle School in Atlanta were suspended for becoming mad at a teacher of theirs, then calling said teacher a pedophile and a rapist on Facebook. The school claims the students violated part of the school’s rules, which include never to misrepresent one its teachers, a “level one” offense (in this case, level one being the worst kind, rather than the weakest) that resulted in one of the students, Alejandra Sosa, being suspended for ten days and facing further, harsher punishment.

Yes, Sosa (and other students who joined in on the Facebook conversation) committed a potentially harmful bit of Facebook libel toward an innocent teacher, but according to Sosa, the school isn’t exactly in the right either: Sosa claims principal Jolene Morris took Sosa to the school library, forced Sosa to log into her Facebook account, then took the keyboard from her and read the entire Facebook conversation before ordering Sosa to delete the comments.

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Meddling kids

Kids Will Get a Shot at Designing the Google Homepage

by Jamie Frevele | 4:06 pm, January 19th

The Google homepage is about to become potentially adorable, certainly awesome! Google announced its fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest, giving students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design a logo for its homepage. The prize: a $15,000 scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant. And that’s not all!

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Teenage Whiz Kid Tops App Store, Displaces Angry Birds

by Max Eddy | 10:55 am, January 18th

Filed under “kids that remind me I have wasted my youth” is Robert Nay, the 14-year-old creator of the iOS game which unseated long-time free app bestseller Angry Birds — a game we may have mentioned in the past. Nay’s brainchild is Bubble Ball, which challenges players to create a path that will get the aforementioned “bubble” to a goal in each level. The game has been downloaded over 2 million times since its December 29th release, and it is currently free on both the Apple and Android app stores.

Now, in the interest of fairness, Angry Birds still holds the top spot for paid games and is still the highest grossing game for sale in the App Store.

This story is like a throwback to a time, not long ago, when the popular conception of the internet was that it was dominated by super-smart children with computer skills that far outmatched their adult counterparts. At a time when computers were just starting to appear in the home, this story resonated with an adult audience that was largely ignorant of what a computer was and what you did with it (see the 1983 classic Wargames). But now, as huge swaths of the population have access to the internet and my grandmother on Facebook, the internet whiz-kid story has diminished. Seeing the success Nay had with his humble game might things up a bit, and maybe give talented young programmers like him a bit of a boost in an increasingly competitive online environment.

(Via The Escapist)

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