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I graduated from HS 9 years ago and I almost got suspended from all computer access, ended up getting some detentions, and various other punishments just for using Firefox. (Would have hated to see what the naive principal would have dished out if I wasn't one of the top students in my class)

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That's the truth. I went to s particularly safe middle school, so when we had a random weapons sweep with metal detectors, only 3 students got caught. I was one of them; I had my little 1" swiss army knife, one girl had a steel nail file with a sharp point, and a mexican kid had a 3" folding buck knife.

Me and the girl were white honor students, and we were let off with a stern warning, and our "weapons" were handed to our parents. The mexican kid with poor english skills got sent to an alternative school (the kind for disciplinary risk kids).

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