Misheard ‘Fresh Prince’ song sparks schools lockdown
In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category: Schools in a Pennsylvania county were put on lockdown after a receptionist misunderstood the words of the theme song to “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” which a student had as his cellphone greeting, and thought the teen was going to commit violence.According to the The Times of Beaver, Pa., the receptionist on Thursday called 19-year-old Travis Clawson, a student at Ambridge Area High School, to remind him of an appointment and heard Clawson’s voice mail greeting, his own rendition of the theme to the 1990s hit show starring Will Smith. She thought she heard the words “shooting people outside of the school,” The Times reported, though the actual words of the song are, “And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school.”
The receptionist called the police, who put all Beaver County schools on lockdown while
Should every student learn computer programming?
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking and will.i.am and Ashton Kutcher and Michael Bloomberg think that all students should learn basic computer code. That, at least, is what they say in this video at code.org, a new non-profit … Continue reading →