Timeline of events
7/4/25 - Student downloads SSH clients and uses it to access a Raspberry PI 3B+ in a portable enclosure with a personally owned Acer nitro 58/4/25 - Student is called to office during class and is told to not bring personal electronics to school
9/4/25 - Student uses Chromebook for PSAT, then continues using personal device 3rd hour
Student is pulled from 3rd hour and brought to office
Student refuses to turn over personal devices
School officer is called and devices confiscated
Student is sent home for the remainder of the day
Student is suspended due to continuing to bring personal devices to school
10/4/25 - Suspended
11/4/25 - Student returns to school
Uses Chromebook for day
14/4/25 - Student is prohibited from using Chromebook all day, required to turn it in after 3rd hour
15/4/25 - Student skips school in protest
16/4/25 - Student goes to school and negotiates, agreement reached on chromebook issue and previous rule overturned
9:16 PM: First email essay sent
14/5/25 7:59 AM: Second Email sent
28/5/25 No response to any emails, School in breach of Chromebook agreement reached 16/4/25
Student discovers personal Website TGUA.DEV is blocked without reason
Current - The personal devices issue has not been resolved
As of recent I’ve been facing challenges with shitty (Untrainted)IT personnel and unknowledgeable admin staff at the school I go to(Leslie Public Schools, Leslie, MI, USA). These incidents range from just pure stupidity and not fact checking, to pure ignorance when it comes to reasonable courses of action.
Outline below is a modified version of an Email I have recently sent in(It is modified to address anyone/internet as opposed to my specific school's administration staff:
Recent events are deeply concerning school overreach and even breaking promises. First of all I'd like to make all recipients to this email privy to the timeline:
[same timeline at top of post]
Not only are these series of events concerning, they're downright stupid. The initial decisions and policies were given without justification or research, following actions were immature, irresponsible, and likely taken only for a personal feeling of power--a well known issue with authorities who take actions "Just 'cause they can".
I'm making these issues privy to all administrative authorities, along with requesting a read receipt with this email, so I will know if someone reads this message and fails to respond. These issues need to be addressed with promptness, scrutiny, and the utmost care to detail.
These actions are some of the most overreaching ones I've ever seen and need to be taken seriously, School IT staff like Chad Kaufman Making calls about technology like SSH being "Dangerous" Without any prior knowledge of how it works, or what it's actually used for is unnerving; school staff need to thoroughly research technologies and issues before coming to an arbitrary decision.
Along with this Andrea Roach, the principal of leslie High school is not without blame, the 16/4/25 in which she agreed for unconditional access to A personal School Chromebook during school hours was recently breached when I was not allowed my Personal Chromebook at the beginning of the 28/5/25 school day.
Not only does this overreach need to be fixed in the future, the past issues still stand; my personal devices are a privilege not restricted by any district or school policy, and the devices were being used for inherently Educational purposes.See what I mean by pure stupidity? I write a series of nicely written emails explaining the situation(Which can be found here) And have to resort to this type of email.
This level of incompetence and failure to answer basic formal emails is unacceptable and unnerving, if anyone has some connection they can use to get the admin staff looked into, feel free to, or even better get the stupid IT staff some actual training on normal everyday use technologies.
Date of writing: 2025-05-28