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I got two Saturday detentions for finding that same tool (also ~2002) - though I just typed “Hi” and hit send - to everyone on the school network.

I of course didn’t really know what I was doing. Looking back, this was a very strange punishment. Jokes on them I guess - left Oklahoma after HS and am now a software engineer in the Bay Area.

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If only we could have reframed our approach to these situations.

Provided what was sent/defaced/etc wasn't hate speech or punching down on someone else, we should have really used these events as flags for identifying kids who could hone their computer skills into something "productive".

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