Fort Bend high school investigating student who made Counter-Strike map based on school
Asian students and Valve Software's Counter-Strike are thrust into the media spotlight once again thanks to new developments in Fort Bend, Texas. A Clements High School student has been suspended and placed into a correctional center when it was discovered that he created and uploaded a custom map for Counter-Strike, which was modelled after the high school. The school initially feared a possible reprisal of the Virginia Tech school shootings thanks to the involvement of a "violent" video game, though it has noted elsewhere that the fact the student in question was Chinese adds an eerie parallel to the VT tragedy which involved another Asian student.
The Clements senior student has not been arrested over the map, but risks losing credits needed for college entrance as a result of being transferred; the student was previously set to be a part of the school's latest graduating class. A district school board meeting to consider the appeal of the school's decision was cancelled when "four board members stayed away". School officials apparently wish to leave nothing to chance, and hope to have the matter investigated further. On the other side of the fence, Fort Bend's local Chinese community is rallying in support for the student and are speaking out against the labelling of Asian students as threats thanks to the VT tragedy.
Two trustees said they called the meeting because school district officials overreacted when the Clements High School student was punished. Board members Stan Magee and Ken Bryant said the special meeting could have expedited the resolution of the case.Magee said district officials went overboard when the 17-year-old boy was suspended from school and placed in the M.R. Wood Alternative Education Center.
"I think we overreacted as a result of the Virginia Tech ordeal," Magee said Tuesday.
But a district spokeswoman said school officials cannot afford to ignore anything involving school-based violence.
"This goes back to Columbine. Ever since that horrid incident took place schools today have to take every incident that is reported very seriously," Fort Bend ISD spokeswoman Mary Ann Simpson said. "And they have to impress upon students how serious this type of thing is. We can't joke about things or take things lightly anymore."
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Kronon
some kid in new jersey won't know what that school looks like...this has nothing to do with games anymore. It has everything to do with the fact that teachers and principals fear any studant who acts outside of THEIR idea of what a studant should act like. They feel they have to control everything, this only goes to show how powerful they are, and how bloody mother *bleep*in' ignorant too.
