Back to School: Watch what you write!

[Griff]

Wired News has a story about a kid who wrote a short story, now he faces the potential of ten years in prison.

Brian Robertson was just months away from graduation at Moore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, last year when he found the beginnings of what he thought was a short story on a school computer. He copied the file to another computer, added some paragraphs to the initial text and then promptly got arrested.

I remember being a teen, it didn't involve too many happy thoughts, it was nice to puke them out on paper and toss'em in the trash, now you'd have to shred the paper and delete the file. Of course any teacher who ignores this stuff could get fired as well...The tighter the security noose gets in schools the more kids feel oppressed and the more they rebel, the more they rebel, the more security has to be tightened... Free Society?