Dos_Box Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 BBC NEWS | England | Humber | Pupils suspended over online game Pupils suspended over online game Dozens of pupils at a North East Lincolnshire school have been suspended after downloading a game from an internet site. In all, 74 pupils at Tollbar Business and Enterprise College at Waltham, near Grimsby, were suspended for what the school said was a breach of IT policy. Principal David Hampson said there were some 1,000 computers at the college and they were provided for educational use. "Computers here are used for learning ... not for playing games," he said. One of our members I wonder?
Blake0 Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 I spose it all depends on the content of the actual game, I remember back at my secondary school someone bought an emulator in on a disk and they got royally shafted for it. 75 people though, it does seem a bit unreasonable.
Gatt Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 was that all from the same year? (if it was here that would be half of our Year 7
Quackers Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Computers are multitasking devices. So they are there for games too. We have games on all our PC's and run Games Clubs during dinner to give them somthing to do. Overkill is not the word, those people need the sack, they are so out of touch its unreal!
Irazmus Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 I'd say it really depends on what the game was and where it was downloaded from. If they were playing flash games in a lesson they should get a verbal slap from the teacher like they would for wasting time in a non-ICT using lesson. If however they downloaded a pirated copy of a game from a shady website and therefore have infringed on copyright (and by proxy caused the school to also) then I'd be more likely to agree with the punishment. There really isn't enough info in that short article to come to an informed opinion.
elsiegee40 Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 74 pupils - all in one go? - Nice quiet day(s) for the teachers then!
tech_guy Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Bl@@dy hell - wish they were that draconian here! Our students just get a telling off.
tech_guy Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 I wonder how long they've been suspended for. In my world - for life.
reggiep Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 I think if 74 of them were playing the game then it was a bit late to be banning them.
contink Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 I think if 74 of them were playing the game then it was a bit late to be banning them. I was thinking that... I mean, did nobody notice?!!
Geoff Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Maybe it was tribes. That's free to download now and you can run 64 player servers.
ChrisC Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Surely the security would stop non admin users installing software to the machines though? Chris
Geoff Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 You don't need to install it. Just unzip it into a folder and it works.
Quackers Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Maybe it was tribes. That's free to download now and you can run 64 player servers. Do you have a link to this game. Might add it to the games available to the kids.
Geoff Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Starsiege: Tribes full install - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com 1
Irazmus Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Do you have a link to this game. Might add it to the games available to the kids. I might do that here as well. Deathmatch with Y8 over lunch. If certain kids turned up I'm sure I'd get some staff interested too, if you get my meaning
reggiep Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Seeing as we are going off topic a bit... TrackMania Top game for network play. And no shooting in it which keeps the SMT happy. 1
ConTheITGuy Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Starsiege: Tribes full install - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com Used to love this game, we used to install it on the PCs at College (though we never got supsended for it!) Downloaded it free quite recently - couldn't quite get back into it though. Andy
Irazmus Posted May 12, 2008 Posted May 12, 2008 Seeing as we are going off topic a bit... TrackMania Top game for network play. And no shooting in it which keeps the SMT happy. Cheers, I'll grab that as well.
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