Great Community School still has people wanted to Cheat :(

[Anne Z.]

Hey everyone,

It was kind of sad to hear the other day that A great school a few towns over was had a bunch of smart students hack their way into the school system because they were bored. what happen to regular old hobbies like playing outside?!?

[kmeyrick]

It's not because they're bored. It's because they have no character education. We're so obsessed with grades, we don't bother with values, personality, honesty, etc.

[UUMom]

Originally Posted by Anne Z.

bored. [/URL]what happen to regular old hobbies like playing outside?!?

They can' t afford coats.

[supervee]

Shoot, my classmates were doing this in the 80s. 'Course then you had to physically break into the office to get to the computer system. It's just to prove they can.

[j924]

Originally Posted by UUMom

They can' t afford coats.

And they couldn't bring in homemade snacks!

[littlecityfarmer]

Sadly, a bunch of kids in one of the wealthy suburbs around here did something similar, but way more involved. Hacked school computers with keystroke-recording devices, changed grades, SAT scores, info for themselves and their friends, used the altered info to get into Top-tier colleges (One went to Johns Hopkins, another to a highly competitive school whose name I can't recall, the rest are still in HS). They are all "good kids" from "good families" who haven't ever been in trouble before. They are all now in deep doo-doo, with many felony charges each, with possibility for long jail terms, etc.

They cited the highly competitive HS as one factor in the scheme, another being "because they could". They came off in the media as brats with exaggerated sense of entitlement.

[CarrieMF]

My brother hacked into the website of a person he didn't like in a neighboring town when he was in highschool. He did it because he could. He did it from school during computer class. He knew more computers than the computer teacher did.

He was caught, but only had to do some community service. He works for one of the main Oil companies in Canada in the computer department designing programs for them.

What these kids did was no different than the numerous other groups that steal copies of a test. They didn't change anything.