Re: A89: Question about Archive Utility 3.0

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Re: A89: Question about Archive Utility 3.0


Sadly, in Michigan, it does. When a minor attends a school, and carries 
anything with him, he/she waives certain rights. If that proporty is stolen 
by another sutedent, you cannot sue, you have to put up with whatever crap 
the school hands you (usually, the school confiscates it, carves the school 
name into it, and claims that you stole it from the school to begin with). 
All electronic data carried into a school by a student is not protected by 
the same laws as it would be off campus. In Michigan, and teacher can reset 
you memory, put a magnet to a disk, break a cd, or do whatever they want to 
it. It has been taken to court to. A teacher in my school put a magnet to the 
hard drive in a student's laptop. The student found a lawyer that would work 
for free, and got his parents to sue the school district. It went to a state 
court, and it was ruled that when you carry property into a school, data 
included, you waive a number of your rights concerning that property.


In a message dated 4/2/00 3:05:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
TGaArdvark@aol.com writes:

<< That can't be true. That most definitely can't be true.
 I truly wish it were, as I would love to have a reason
 to take my teacher/school/district to court (or take
 my state to the supreme court (it would be amusing
 to beat out an entire state in a legal battle (over a
 few kilobytes of memory no less))).  Your teacher
 may NOT clear your memory or view the contents
 of your memory without your permission ever for any
 circumstances without exception.  There would be
 an exception if you could carry anything that's a
 felony to take onto school campuses in your
 calculator's memory, but replicators haven't been
 invented yet.  Clearing a calculator's memory does
 not fall under the reasonable directive clause, just
 as burning the notebooks you bring to class or even
 throwing away the gameboy cartriges that you
 weren't supposed to bring to class doesn't.  I would
 cite court precedents for this except both of the
 incidents I've ever heard of were settled (in the
 student's favor) by the involved school. >>


Jeff Barrett
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