Teacher accused and convicted of child endangerment

[Bill Sconce]

A pointer to this story just came across my screen from one
of the educations lists.

Synopsis:
    A substitute teacher named Julie Amero has evidently been convicted
    of "child endangerment" and faces a possible sentence of decades in
    jail, because a computer provided in the classroom she was asked to
    use was infected with adware and displayed XXX pop-ups.
  
    There's a substory about computer forensics and fingerpointing (and
    the evident lack of forensics expertise available to detectives).
  
Start here:
    http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070222/#story0

    Flawed technology condemns an educator

    "The key issues were set in motion before Julie ever arrived to
    substitute-teach on the day in October 2004 that the pop-ups
    occurred. The school district had allowed its Web-filtering 
    software support contract to expire, preventing the software 
    from receiving updates. The computer in question was running..."
    (oh, wait. Can you guess?)


shaking_his_head'ly yrs,

Bill