The most disturbing thing I've seen in the news so far today, was on GMA this morning. Click here for GMA article. The story of Julie Amero, the Norwich, Connecticut teacher who was forced to plead guilty to disorderly conduct and can not work in any classroom again. Amero checked her personal email on a school computer then went to the ladies room. When she came back, there were children looking at porn pop-ups on the screen. She was accused of surfing porn sites.
I have had this same thing happen on at least two occasions. I don't remember what type of sites they were, but they were probably porn. When those pop-ups occur, trying to click the X to get rid of them only seems to cause more to pop up. The only fix I've ever found for this problem is to hold in the power button as quickly as possible until the computer powers down.
I'm not a computer expert by any means, but along with my firewall and pop-up blocker, I run anti-spyware and anti-virus software. It seems to me that the Kelly Middle School in Norwich is directly to blame for what happened to her and these children for not having an adequate firewall and pop-up blocker. Another fix could have been to run anti-spyware on their computers.
Why didn't any of those Kelly Middle School parents come to her aid? Like Julie said, "If it can happen to me it can certainly happen to you." And oh, ya, isn't this the same state that allowed Pfizer to take many people's homes by eminent domain? This is not a state I'd feel comfortable living in.
On a lighter note...Congrats to the parents of the octuplets that were born yesterday in southern California! I can't quite imagine what it would be like to have to take care of EIGHT babies all at once!
Wow, can you believe it has actually been almost 5 years (February 1, 2004) since the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction during Superbowl halftime? It seems like it was just yesterday!
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