Student creates Counter-Strike map of school, gets kicked out of school

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In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, schools around the country are on high alert for any suspicious activity on the part of their students. The problem comes when this heightened sense of fear leads to stories like the case of a Texas teenager who was suspended from his high school and moved into an alternative school. The reason? He played Counter-Strike on his home computer, on a level that was designed to look like his high school.

This school's response looks like a reaction to the discredited link between violent games and the Virginia Tech shootings. Although no video games were found in the dorm room of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, the "link" between the tragedy and games like Counter-Strike was trumped up by pundits like Jack Thompson and television personality Dr. Phil. The nonstory gained traction in the mainstream press and may be a factor in the unidentified student's suspension.

Counter-Strike, the game that Cho Seung-Hui allegedly played in high school, is a popular online first-person shooter that pits teams of terrorists against counter-terrorists is a variety of scenarios. Players can also design their own maps for the game, and apparently the student in question created a map based on his high school. That was enough to have him sent to an alternative school, despite the fact that he had no disciplinary problems or incidents of violent behavior. "He did it at his house. Never took anything to school. Never wrote an ugly letter, never said anything strange to a student or a teacher, nothing," said board member Stan Magee to the Houston Chronicle.

After it was reported the student played the game at his house using this custom map, his computer was searched by law enforcement, who found nothing criminal on the PC. The very act of creating the map and playing the game was apparently dangerous enough to keep him from returning to his school, however. "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 spokesperson Mary Ann Simpson told the Houston Chronicle.

While it's hard to find fault with a system that's trying to protect students, it's harder to justify the removal of a student from school based on his playing of a video game in his spare time. The student's parents are appealing the decision, and some on the school board now believe that his removal may have been wrong. "I think we overreacted as a result of the Virginia Tech ordeal," Magee later told the Chronicle.

School administrators are not alone if they are on edge in the aftermath of Virginia Tech. Those fears mean that behavior like playing violent video games can bring suspicion on gamers, especially when they create scenarios that hit a bit too close to home.
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It would be kinda creepy playing on a map that looked like your school.
But it's no reason to get kicked out...
 
UGH. I'm tired of people trying to link video games and violent behaviour.
Violent behaviour spawns somewhere in one's physicological being...

Also, I wish I had a CSS map of my school. That'd be great. My school would be awesome for it.
 
no i can see why i mean they night have over reacted but then again the kid could have been planning somthing from the schools point of view but from ours its just fun lol
 
Hence you make it for Portal, theres no violence (as like CSS, theres still the turrets) and you can use it to make a map of your school for Computer Media/Science Reasons sort of like AutoCAD but easier.

Or better yet, rename the level or dont use a real school
 
Rogue Sniper said:
Hence you make it for Portal, theres no violence (as like CSS, theres still the turrets) and you can use it to make a map of your school for Computer Media/Science Reasons sort of like AutoCAD but easier.

Or better yet, rename the level or dont use a real school
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Portal?!?! Its the meanest game ever i thought i was gonna actually eat a cake when i completed the game but it was hiding in some dark deep room and i never saw my companion cube again :(
 
Rogue Sniper said:
Hence you make it for Portal, theres no violence (as like CSS, theres still the turrets) and you can use it to make a map of your school for Computer Media/Science Reasons sort of like AutoCAD but easier.

Or better yet, rename the level or dont use a real school
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!up Rogue
 
i think the reason people react so dramatically is for 2 reasons 1. as already mentioned that bogus VT/CS connection and 2. the columbine shooters made a map in DOOM to look like their school so people see the similarities and over react
 
Damn, dude must have been a pretty good map maker if it looked so much like his school they would be suspicious and expel him. We should get him on eGO to make some awesome jail maps.
 
It does say suspended not expelled, and it makes sense to take action after 9/11. A thing like this may seem simple but to look from the schools perspective, it could be interpreted as an act of terrorism. They are stingy now after 9/11, but I am just speaking out loud.
 
Hmm, I heard about this before. I have mixed feelings, I think that it was just harmless and the guy just having some fun but I can see how someone can take it the other way.
 
thats crazyyy...but ever since i was in elemantary school i always wanted to play laser tag in the school building at nite with the lights off...i always thought that would be sooo fun
 
ya its understandable, but really from their point of view they have no option. they need to take some sort of action.
it is unfortunate that all the fingers are pointed at video games tho, but lets be honest. everything affects us. we are quite literally products of our own environment. everything influences us from the media to video games to things we learn in school to things we hear on the street. hell if you ask me (where im from anyway) they're doing more harm from what we learn in school than we are by playing CSS.
 
I'd put 3 bombsites in my custom map of my school.

Bombsite A: 1st block - US history
Bombsite B: 2nd block - Pre - Cal
Bombsite C: The Lunchroom
 
[O?] said:
I'd put 3 bombsites in my custom map of my school.

Bombsite A: 1st block - US history
Bombsite B: 2nd block - Pre - Cal
Bombsite C: The Lunchroom
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What? What about AP Econ, gotta blow that up
 
what's a school, im from texas.... i gets me edumecation on the strets.... i gratutaded when i was tin, going to my twety yer reuion in a fiw moths.
 
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