WJHS: Students Added Halo and Counter-Strike to School Computers

Note:  Halo and Counter-Strike are two computer games that are very popular among computer gamers. 


The Pitch Online:  MCPS’s Counter-Strike to Halo: Halo, Counter-Strike Blocked from School Computers

Call it an early Christmas present to students – or a nuisance to administration. From early to mid-December, two students added Halo and Counter-Strike to school computers. In the short time that students had access to the games, they became wildly popular, especially during classes that frequently used computers.
These Local Area Network (LAN) games, which allowed students to play with each other via a local connection, quickly ate away at class time. Now, WJ [Walter Johnson High School] administrators and MCPS officials are cracking down. MCPS administrators wrote a script (a list of commands for a computer program) that shuts off a user’s computer if the user tries to access Halo or Counter-Strike. The folder containing the files has also been removed numerous times by the school’s Information Technology Support Specialist...