p2pnet.net News:- The Kutztown 13 have been reprieved. They’re the students charged with felonies after they used laptops for downloading and to monitor district administrators.

Apple Computer had talked the school into making use of its iBooks compulsory. The pupils did so, but wound up on the wrong side of the law and their CutUsaBreak protest site summed it up like this:

“The story began with the planned implementation of Kutztown’s One to One Computer Initiative. This program would make it mandatory for ~600 high school students to carry and use an Apple laptop computer in order to participate in the education process at their high school.”

Learn through Apple, or don’t learn at all?

“Most of the 13 students accused of tinkering with their school-issued laptop computers to download programs and spy on administrators are being offered deals in which the felony charges would be dropped, lawyers and a family member say,” states the Associated Press.

“In return, the students would perform 15 hours of community service, write an apology, take a class on personal responsibility and serve a few months probation, the attorneys said.”

A student with “prior dealings with the juvenile probation office” wasn’t offered a deal “and the case was expected to proceed”.

Will the students still be forced to use Apple iBooks? AP doesn’t say, but count on it.

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See:-
reprieved - The Kutztown 13, August 11, 2005
Associated Press - Deals pending for students accused of computer-tinkering, August 26, 2005

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