School bans boy over Jordan work

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A 14-year-old Hertfordshire student has been suspended from school for using topless pictures of the model Jordan in an English project, his family say.

His father, Keith Petchey, has accused the authorities of over-reacting.

James Petchey chose Jordan as the topic of his English project at Cavendish Comprehensive in Hemel Hempstead.

He claims his teachers suspended him for 24 hours after he handed in the work. The education authority said it was an appropriate punishment

James chose Jordan as his subject after being handed the task of searching the internet to find facts about his favourite celebrity.

His father Keith said this punishment was over-the-top and draconian.

"At no point was he told Jordan was an inappropriate topic and I'd rather he was researching her than gangsta rap artists," he said.

A Hertfordshire County Council education department spokeswoman said: "It was an appropriate punishment.

"Pupils are well aware that it is not allowed to download pictures of this nature and particularly not to include them in schoolwork.

"There is, of course, a firewall on the school computers but some things do occasionally slip through the net."

24 hrs? I prob would have been expelled.

How does a firewall stop topless pics? :unsure:

Goggle will bring up anything :rolleyes:

He has a good excuse. :) If he had not used a topless pic, he would only have got a double F. :lol:

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Originally Posted by bigboab

He has a good excuse. :) If he had not used a topless pic, he would only have got a double F. :lol:

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lol :lol:

i think the school over-reacted though. good job he didn't decide on jenna haze :lol:

One day suspension. I dont know what I would have gotten but it would have been alot more than that.

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yeah, my schools alot worse. they have even blocked us from going to google images...

my teachers would have just given me a week to do it again when i was at school

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Originally Posted by DanB

How does a firewall stop topless pics? :unsure:

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:lol:

Good point. Perhaps the teachers haven't got a clough about computers and some geeky 14 year old student does all of the IT support.

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Originally Posted by geeky 14 y/o

You want me to install a porn filter? Yup a firewall should do the job :shifty:

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a cloth?

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Originally Posted by TheDave

a cloth?

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Not with you, chief :ermm:

Clue?

Firewalls stop "hot" pictures.

I suppose he is in good company. Was Moses not stopped going over the Jordan. :ph34r:

It's only 24 hours. What the fuck is the father bitching about? The damn kid should know better anyway.

It has become international news
causse it deals with todayss dilemnas of right and wrong of accesibility of information and where our society is headed towards

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Originally Posted by JPaul

Shite.

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:lol: :lol: :lol:


Of course, which head I decided to wear (remembering that being a mod means I automatically grow an extra one :lol: , will have a bearing on my position :innuendo: regarding that comment... :P

Or I might just piss off to bed :D :D

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Originally Posted by JPaul

Shite.

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I totally i agree but sometimes it sounds better that it sounds
:lol:

we put a naked arnold scwarzenegger picture into the credits of our physics slidshow just for a few laughs.
the teachers laughed, no suspension. :unsure:

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Originally Posted by rossco_2004

we put a naked arnold scwarzenegger picture into the credits of our physics slidshow just for a few laughs.
the teachers laughed, no suspension. :unsure:

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sexism
:blink:

There are plenty of clothed pictures of Jordan, the fact that the kid chose to put naked pictures into his school project, shows what a prat he is, probably showing off, and really needed a slap on the wrist. A 1 day suspension however seems more like a reward than a punishment, probably not the sort of example they'd want to set..

I don't know why the father felt the need to get involved, he sounds like a publicity-seeking opportunist to me.

This whole story is distasteful, not least because of the subject matter.. Next!

wow, over-reaction on the father's part. feck, my school probably woulda suspended me for more than a week. this gives me an idea :ph34r: :shifty:

over reaction on colinmacc's part too :lol:

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Originally Posted by TheDave

over reaction on colinmacc's part too :lol:

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Really? :unsure: In what way?