Student Gets Suspended from School for creating a CounterStrike Map of his School

Students playing the addictive Counter Strike are nothing uncommon today, but things went seriously wrong for Texas teenager when he got suspended from Clements High School for playing Counter Strike in his home computer, on a level which closely resembled his high school.

The whole story came into light a day after Virginia Tech Shooting when a parent called the Clements High School to inform that their child was playing a video game which involved killing and took place inside an animated map of Clements High School. School authorities then found a website which had that map for download, but unfortunately the creator of the map was a student at their school.

Law enforcement authorities were informed and they questioned the teenager. According to the police, the teenager never intended to cause any violence or to kill someone. His locker and computer were searched, but they found nothing illegal.

Whether he was right or wrong, I leave that question to you, but what the school authorities did was seriously wrong. It’s simply a game and millions of kids across the globe play CounterStrike, why hurt his education just because he created a school map for the game?

This post was published by on May 3, 2007

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  • http://techmantra.net Vikram

    According to me it is Really Wrong.They Destroyed those kids future.

  • http://www.webmaster-dome.com/ Sreejith

    I think adults are becoming more sillier than kids. I mean, I remember creating a small racing game with my colony and regional places as the circuit. I did it with a game maker.

    This is so primitive. What the authorities did was seriously wrong !! I think we should put these guys in jail !!!!

  • http://www.techlivez.com shashank

    the school authorities must be gone crazy …that too with a high school student huh

  • http://www.tech-live.info Phalgun

    I think they have done wrong. He did not jumped to school with a real gun or something. And he had done everything on his own computer.

  • http://sizlopedia.com djflush

    No Way were the actions ‘wrong’

    The school did its best to ensure the security of its students and everyone

    Remember the 1999 Columbine High School massacre

    It just started like the boy above started a game

    the both killer in the Columbine High School massacre first made a site on which they spread violence and later committed the act

    You never know whats coming

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  • http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/ Brown Baron

    I’m a regular cz player but I prefer the stock maps. I think the school overreacted. They should have just talked to the kid.

  • http://www.mikroproje.com zoid

    School manager did the right thing i guess.

  • http://www.enblogopedia.com Enblogopedia

    Well, it depends on the age of the kid..if he`s under, let`s say, 14 then they should reward him for creating the map by himself :D

  • http://www.biscuitrat.trap17.com Ranjani

    We had our Latin Area competition there! Seriously, the school shouldn’t be concerned with this at all. People have made maps of plenty of other schools and buildings. Heck, if they’re concerned about the map itself, all schools give out thousands and thousands of copies. This is just a 3-D version…for an game…

  • http://logiconline.wordpress.com Srikanth

    This is sick.Even if they couldnt praise the kid for the creativity, they shouldnt have done this.Well my friend created a Quake 3 map of our college for intercollegiate gaming competition which was widely appreciated.

  • http://theviewfinderblog.com Benjamin

    In my opinion, it’s pretty retarded, but I suppose if he WAS a terrorist he could learn the layout of the school and plan his attack route. It’s still retarded.

  • http://blog.adglobe.net km

    Nothing wrong the kids create his own school animated map. Must be the parent too sensitive after the Virginia Tech Shooting incident.

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  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Heh! I will try not to comment on whether it was right or wrong. But I think it is quite natural.

    The people are usually a paranoid lot, and they take extra precautions. That is the way they are. I would be surprised if they had acted other wise. They are, what can be categorized as a ‘egalitarian society’. (I am not painting a stereotypical picture here – just stating my opinion).

  • http://sankaranand.com/blog Sankar anand

    seriously its wrong. there is nothing wrong in suspension of the student because the map of the school inherited in the game makes or changes the mind of the student …

  • James

    Back when I used to play loads of Quake I always wanted a level that was a replica of my place of work. It didn’t mean that I was unstable or about to go on a killing spree in real life. For many people these games are a means to vent frustrations, just like paintball.

    Now if the kid in question had created player models of his tutors to gun down, that would be a different story…

  • Mosey

    I back James’ statement above about the player model, but from the information portrayed here, I would say that it was a bit drastic suspending the map creator. Maybe it would have been better to talk it through, and then encourage his skills as a map creator :)

  • http://blogs.mysites-advisor.com/ Ken Xu

    Ha ha ha, real cool issue here, thilak. I think the real matter is the old man who in charge to suspend this poor little child.
    May be that old man is a non-techie-bad-breath-and-blame-caster type of man.
    He think this child are going to destroy his precious school, so, he “kill” the child before get killed by the child! hahaha :-)

    Bad adult… give wrong example for his next generation. He just keep the child’s creativity down until the lower level.
    :-)

  • http://sizzledcore.uni.cc/blog/ Haris

    Hahaha! Now, this is funny! :D

    Why did the boy got suspended? I mean, what was his fault actually? He just created a map. Would that be also wrong if he would have created a 3D model of his school somewhere?
    That school manager must have a hard time learning Counter-Strike :p, I guess. So, he just took out the frustration at that poor kid. :p

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  • http://samirbharadwaj.com Samir

    We truly do live in paranoid times.

    A classic example of all concerned being caught up in the results of a mass state of over reaction, whether they personally like it or not. The point remains that if the school didn’t do this and something like a shooting occurred later, they would be taken to task or sued for not taking precautions or reading the signs. At the same time if this student is just a another well-adjusted creative teenager (as is likely), his creativity has now been stifled by being twisted into being something dark and sinister.

    In the end no one wins.

  • id

    yikes. A bunch of colleagues and I created a level that was mapped like our office. it was awesome. I guess that means we all get fired….

    (that school is run by morons.)

  • R5

    why when all the time they are telling us to stay in school would they kick him out of school for that?

  • William Aka Blood

    I think what they did to the kid was just wrong they should not kick him out becuase he mad e a map of his school on a game counter strike that is a really good game who care all they should of done was monitor him and make sure he wasent gunna go on a rampage at his skew ppl this day and age are to soft..

    They should not of suspended the kid ponly watched him he shoiuld of been praised because he was smart enought to create a layout of his school.

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  • Vahid

    dumb adults. if we go by the same logic authorities will have to arrest the employess of Rockstar Games for creating GTA maps resembling new york and LA (or was it Las Vegas?).Bloody morons

  • robert

    lol that was awesome what that kid did what a young genious lol i think what he did is funny rather than “wrong” but kidz dont do this at home… lol