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By Senior Editor John H. Farr
The last we heard, things were still hopping in the Richmond, Virginia (Henrico County) school system. A number of students who were issued iBooks decided to dowload and distribute naughty pictures, the schools had the laptops modified by Apple to prevent this, the kids figured out how to do it anyway, and dozens of students were being suspended for "subverting" the iBooks' operating systems. What a mess! In our last report, we suggested that everybody lighten up and just let the kids look at anything they wanted. In our experience, there is no better antidote to the allure of the forbidden than total immersion in the stuff. As we dared state last time, "After a couple of weeks of ugly hardcore porn, they'll even look forward to algebra." This produced several responses from concerned parents who feared the students would never be the same after looking at such material. Our reply was that everything we do affects and changes us, and that maybe all that was required was for people to trust the kids. Some of you agreed: "Kids are very curious people, if we told them on not to look, that will only provoke them! On the other hand, if we just let them loose with their own things, sooner or later, if the things don't interest them more, they would just let it go." Meanwhile, we're happy to report that up in Maine, one of the schools that have received new iBooks for the students have decided to [gasp] let the students take the laptops home! The Pine Tree State will never be the same, which just might be a good thing (you never know). All in all, a whopping 84 students from a single "test school" will be allowed to carry their iBooks home. Unfortunately, none of this first privileged group of 84 will be allowed to connect their iBooks to the Internet. Even so, parents are being warned to keep an eye on their children's laptop use. "Honey, you aren't doing anything you shouldn't on that thing, are you?" Next week: a special report on the evils of word processing and its effect on vulnerable teenage minds. Stay tuned!
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