{"id":1518,"date":"2012-03-15T17:28:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2012-03-15T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:28:32","slug":"the-names-bond-aaron-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/03\/15\/the-names-bond-aaron-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"The name's Bond \u2013 Aaron Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you'd been lately browsing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\">geek.com<\/a> \u2013 essential reading, I find \u2013 you'd likely have come across the sad tale of \u00a0Devon's King Edward VI College and its expulsion of \u00a014 year old Aaron Bond. \u00a0Was AB disruptive? \u00a0Was he violent? \u00a0A truant? \u00a0On cannabis? \u00a0Didn't do his homework? \u00a0Did he say he preferred Cornwall? \u00a0Apparently not. \u00a0AB's crime was to hack the College's IT system. \u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/news\/14-year-old-app-prodigy-aaron-bond-expelled-for-hacking-2012038\/\">geek.com<\/a> puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems the administration at King Edward VI College in Devon weren\u2019t too keen on Aaron hacking into the school\u2019s systems and editing its newsletter, messing with room bookings, and poring over student and staff data. \u00a0Bond\u2019s mother leapt to his aid, saying that he was simply curious \u201clike any school boy would have been.\u201d She went on to say that \u201cthe security of the school computer system should be a lot better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, geek is rather critical of the lad (and his splendid mother):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, it\u2019s entirely logical to blame the school for your son\u2019s actions, Ms. Bond. \u00a0Their laxness clearly pushed him over the edge, and even when he was successful he decided that he\u2019d better do it a few more times just to make <em>absolutely sure<\/em> that his curiosity was satisfied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AB is not without talent. \u00a0He has already released six mobile apps and runs his own web design company, and it's hard to disagree with geek when it says ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He\u2019ll probably do just fine whether or not the College reconsiders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the humourless College has failed this test, and so AB is now enrolled elsewhere. \u00a0I can only hope that this new school appreciates its students' abilities and can put them to good use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you'd been lately browsing\u00a0geek.com \u2013 essential reading, I find \u2013 you'd likely have come across the sad tale of \u00a0Devon's King Edward VI College and its expulsion of \u00a014 year old Aaron Bond. \u00a0Was AB disruptive? \u00a0Was he violent?...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}