Asian students and Valve Software's Counter-Strike are thrust into the media spotlight once again thanks to new developments in Fort Bend, Texas. A Clements High School student has been suspended and placed into a correctional center when it was discovered that he created and uploaded a custom map for Counter-Strike, which was modelled after the high school. The school initially feared a possible reprisal of the Virginia Tech school shootings thanks to the involvement of a "violent" video game, though it has noted elsewhere that the fact the student in question was Chinese adds an eerie parallel to the VT tragedy, which involved another Asian.

The Clements senior student has not been arrested over the map, but risks losing credits needed for college entrance as a result of being transferred; the student was previously set to be a part of the school's latest graduating class. A district school board meeting to consider the appeal of the school's decision was cancelled when "four board members stayed away". School officials apparently wish to leave nothing to chance, and hope to have the matter investigated further. On the other side of the fence, Fort Bend's local Chinese community is rallying in support for the student and are speaking out against the labelling of Asian students as threats thanks to the VT tragedy.