{"id":843,"date":"2004-01-27T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/27\/net-send-hey\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T12:00:18","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:00:18","slug":"net-send-hey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/net-send-hey\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Send * Hey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This 13 year old kid in Texas got suspended<\/a> for figuring out how to do a “net send”. That’s not right. So I sent him a letter:<\/p>\n

Lee C. Sonko
\n[address removed]<\/p>\n

Vampire & Cowgirl [address from the nightmare candles website]
\nPo Box 1203
\nHurst, Tx 76053<\/p>\n

Carl,<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know each other but I wanted to write you a real ink and paper note to offer you and your family support, and reaffirm your suspicion that your teachers are being ninnies on this whole Net Send issue.<\/p>\n

Rock on,<\/p>\n

Lee Sonko
\nhttp:\/\/lee.org<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a fax to the school…<\/p>\n

Lee C. Sonko
\n[address removed]<\/p>\n

Principal Tommy Rollins [address from the school’s website]
\nNorth Richland Middle School
\n4800 Rufe Snow Dr
\nNorth Richland Hills, TX 76180
\nPhone: (817) 547-4200
\nFax: (817) 581-5372<\/p>\n

Concerning the matter of Carl Grimmer\u2019s suspension for using the \u201cnet send\u201d computer command:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure that you have, by now researched what Carl did in the computer lab and know what his intentions likely were.<\/p>\n

If you set the example of severely punishing students for learning independently, you\u2019ll get exactly what you demand of your students.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your consideration,
\nLee C. Sonko<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The original story:
\nFort Worth Star Telegram<\/a><\/p>\n

Other websites:
\nDave’s Good Stuff<\/a>
\nThe Opinion Journal<\/a> from The Wall Street Journal
\nMetaFilter<\/a>
\nFark<\/a>
\nSLASHDOT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 13 year old kid in Texas got suspended for figuring out how to do a “net send”. That’s not right. So I sent him a letter: Lee C. Sonko [address removed] Vampire & Cowgirl [address from the nightmare candles website] Po Box 1203 Hurst, Tx 76053 Carl, We don\u2019t know each other but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}