So, are you condoning his actions or condemning them?
Is this a good school ,or bad?
Edit, these are genuine questions - I'm really interested in your opinion.
Mike.
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Its hard to say for sure.
But judging a school from a distance is rather wrong too. One kids views of how a school works is very limited information to go by.
There are in fact many schools that do have far more politics than educational concerns within them selves. There are countless examples of schools with overall very poor performance both in the student and faculty bodies because of misplaced priorities.
I have seen very good teachers get run off for the wrong and unjustified reasons and yet saw teachers that should have had criminal charges brought up against them year after year get raises and praise from a screwed up school board and some clever misdirection to wards what the public sees.
What I get out of it is, Mr. B's laid back attitude is likely because he knows the system he is a part of doesn't care and he is content with taking a paycheck as long as he can get one.
If they run him off so what! A far worse teacher may just replace him. The laid back guys are some time laid back because they have a solid fall back plan already in place.
I have pushed myself hard all of my adult working life because I know that no matter what an employer says at the hiring never never trust that to be 100% true or that the situation you were hired under will stay the way it was!
For all we know a change of school board members and or management could turn Mr B's outlook around or perhaps make his methods a positive example and the rest of the teachers may end up being the ones hoping a positive student petition helps them keep their jobs!
If your going to continue the computer foolery at least do something positive with it. Find your schools dirty laundry and make it public! Your most likely going to get boiled alive for your actions eventually so why not try to make you school a better place before you get strung up!
Whistle blowers get shot in the head, The people that they ratted out are slow roasted until well done!
My local public school "misplaced" a $100K on the records books years ago and never said a word about it for several years! To this day I would still like to know the truth to were it went or how it happened.
If your school Is that bad, your local public needs an honest inside view of whats really going on. School boards and administration have some very tactful ways of keeping the real goings on rather on the secret side of what the public sees.
And I personally, just as a concerned uncle, would want to know the real truth about where my tax dollars are going and what quality of teachers (or internal politics) its paying for is when its related to my family and their education.
Purely my opinion based on speculation on this one.
So, are you condoning his actions or condemning them?
Is this a good school ,or bad?
Edit, these are genuine questions - I'm really interested in your opinion.
Mike.
It appears to me that you have convoluted thoughts towards your school administration or they truly do have their heads in the sand. Everything you mention is squarely against academic ethics and contributes at the root level of the bleak secondary education system in this country. Perhaps this "laissez-faire" is nothing more than a tiger in waiting.... being the school's admin. waiting for the opportune time to pounce on Mr. B. A good, effective teacher is proactive and not "laid back". Seems that your petition may have garnered further retardation of the true learning process that's intended by the school district and paid for by the district's residents. Shame, shame!
Krumlink even if the computers were donated they are the schools property.
If you wanted to use your skills to do something useful set up a security policy that prevents them from doing anything but work on the computer. Microsoft has available on it's website a complete policy editor which if you were as intelligent and knowledgeable as you say you are could easily setup to prevent any kind of activity that you wanted. Windows machines can be made VERY secure if you know what you're doing.
I don't think anyone is trying to offend you, but what you're doing is wrong no matter how you attempt to justify it.
Krum lock the bios and remove the CD and floppies from the boot device list, set your system policies correctly then the only way around it is physically open the machine up and clear the bios to be able to boot from something besides the hard drive. Your problem isn't smart kids it's a complete and utter lack of system administration.
I'm not saying use a 'blocker' I'm saying use the microsoft policy editor, that's built directly into windows itself there is no way to bypass the policy if the policy is setup correctly.
Locking the bios is not a bad idea at all, but nearly everybody has a flash drive, and these are very old machines (pentiumIII with 20gb hdd), therefore I do not think there is a USB drive option.
What they really need is a full version of an operating system on a usb drive and a network usb modem with graphics card, sound, keyboard. Then when there done they just un-plugg it. Put the money into keyboards and screens.
kv
might as well put a computer on a usb and plug the usb computer into the computer. Oops Redundancy
Just my two cents worth!You did not read the thread clearly because I did it to 3 computers, each bogged down with countless games. The kids, wasting other kids time by playing the games on the computers leaves only 5 systems. In my school district we employ professional IT people to service ALL computers and networking regardless of location in a school. That goes a long way towards proper security and control of network traffic and software. It makes for sound, legal, common sense!
By the way, I help Mr. B with the class, and saying he is laid back was not entirely accurate. He has a class curriculum with a daily schedule of how things happen. Lecture, gives us work to do for the day, and then gives us the work. He lets us go down to the cafeteria for a snack every so often, and we sometimes watch a movie during our work time. OK, so Mr. B has many clones of his kind throughout the nation. Hopefully the movies are subject related and not Alien vs Predator.
Attributing me to the "further retardation of the true learning process" is clearly a cheap shot at me and if you actually knew anything more about my school, you would realize that your statement is nonsense and you are trying to offend me personally. Shame on yourself. Well, I can only go on what info. you initially provided. Again in my school district, such instructors are eventually weeded out. My school district has won many academic excellence awards over the years from both state and federal levels. We are one public education system that rivals the private, college prepatory schools. You don't retain titles and awards like that by hiring laid back instructors who teach only when students are in the mood for it.
Hey Krummy, if your are using XP why aren't you setting up the PCs with full ADMIN control? Is it XP Pro? That would prevent others from d/l pgms into it.
"retardation of the true learning process that's intended by the school district and paid for by the district's residents" I'm sure some people would take this as offensive.
LOL! aah, you should look up the definition of retardation if you think its a dirty word.
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