Is it fair that I was excluded from college?

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Malc said:
Ultimately at work, people are supposed to be professional and responsible.
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Does this not go for college students also? He's supposed to be there to learn and not mess about pulling pranks and disrupting the class. At the end of the day he's not in compulsory education so he must want to attend college? If that's the case he should be there to learn. If not withdraw from the course, do everyone a favour and go on the dole.
 
Storm3y said:
Does this not go for college students also? He's supposed to be there to learn and not mess about pulling pranks and disrupting the class. At the end of the day he's not in compulsory education so he must want to attend college? If that's the case he should be there to learn. If not withdraw from the course, do everyone a favour and go on the dole.
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It does but I don't think the world works with a "treat those as you have been treated" mentality.
 
Storm3y said:
Does this not go for college students also? He's supposed to be there to learn and not mess about pulling pranks and disrupting the class. At the end of the day he's not in compulsory education so he must want to attend college? If that's the case he should be there to learn. If not withdraw from the course, do everyone a favour and go on the dole.
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SHE... not he!!
 
PMKeates said:
I think pranks and jokes are pretty much part and parcel of the workplace, no?
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Doesn't seem that funny IMO after multiple other kids have done similar things. At the end of the day the lessons are short and if they are taken up by kids messing about then it's disrupting the education of not only themselves but the other kids.
 
Depends on the workplace, no one would bat an eye where I work. Most of us have a sense of humor.

I understand a piece of code and a picture are two separate things and the fact that she has had issues in the past may have elevated this issue, I think it has gone way over the top.
 
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Ivee said:
Not sure if this is in the right place and I am quite new here but I was excluded for faking a BSOD on a tutors computer and needed an opinion from technical minded people. The BSOD was classified as a Trojan Horse by the college, yes it is an executable file that fakes a BSOD.

The thing is several students have been full screening pictures of a BSOD on tutors computers as well as putting up Google mavity as a laugh and a joke and the teachers took it as a laugh and a joke but when I did the same thing except with a piece of VB code I wrote they classified it as a virus, told me I commited a crime and excluded me.

I know I have violated the Computer Misuse Act 1998 but so have they by putting BSOD pranks on tutors machines without authority to do so. Due to this I think it is extremely unfair that I was excluded and was wondering what I could do, I am already on stage 3 which means I am close to being permanantly excluded from college, they have sent me home and took my ID card off of me while they open up an investigation and what has ****ed me off the most is that I've had to walk home because non of the buses would accept my student bus pass without my college ID card and I had no cash on me.

Please help I need support! This is vital to my future, the last dicipinary I had I had to sign a contract stating that I would use the computers sensibly but if they can do a BSOD prank on tutors and it be taken as a laugh and joke then what is the meaning of sensible?
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Yes it's fair. If it was vital to your future you shouldn't have done it.

Just to rub it in...
P.S I did this to a work colleagues system... Was OK.. ;)
 
I was getting threatened for doing a similar thing at college 3 years ago now, but it was an image on a students PC. Teacher escalated it all the way up to the head of the department or something.
I think I had pulled another type of prank as well so I was on my 2nd warning as such.

However, I finished doing 2nd best in the class and proceeded to working for a a company which is one of the largest of its type.

Never looked back and regretted messing around at college, its basically no different than school (just get the work done :p).
 
PMKeates said:
'Contract of behaviour'? Please, give me a break.

"you sent an illegal virus attachment to a member of staff and endangered the security of the college network." - total nonsense.

The college is crap.
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Malc said:
Why not ring up to find out? You're not certain, I'm not certain. Only the college will be.



Like I said, the offense has no bearing on what the OP is entitled to do. It's irrelevant.

Put it this way. What happens if the OP is allowed to stay but hasn't been given work for 3 weeks? Upon return, they will be 3 weeks behind. How is that just? The policy I linked to suggests that from day 6 work must be provided. Presumably to reduce disruption. Even if that policy doesn't apply to the "college", it looks like good practice so it's likely to be in the college's procedures or at least something they'd agree to.

Ultimately at work, people are supposed to be professional and responsible. I wouldn't like to think that the heads of schools/colleges are any different. Therefore this won't be personal, and the head wont see it as "rocking the boat". Calling to ensure the best for a pupil is the responsible thing to do.
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Again, you're both missing the point. The OP signed a contract (their original enrolment form) in exchange for a service. The OP breached the terms of the contract (in a way which was detrimental to the other users of the service), therefore the college are fully entitled to terminate it, especially considering it's not the first time it's happened and she's been warned about it before.

To be honest, I think she's lucky to be having a hearing and potentially a 3rd chance rather than just being kicked out full stop (although this is possibly due to the fact the college won't get their full funding if they kick her out, rather than through any desire to actually give her another chance).
 
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