Top Student Charged With Fixing Grades For Cash 135
alphadogg writes "A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee. Police say Tyler Coyner, 19, was the ringleader in a group of 13 students who have been charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion in connection with the case. Last year, Coyner somehow obtained a password to the Pahrump Valley High School's grade system and, over the course of two semesters, offered to change grades in return for cash payments, police say."
was the password on a piece of paper in the office (Score:4, Insightful)
was the password on a piece of paper in the office and he just know where it was stored it?
doing it for free is not the same as doing it for (Score:4, Insightful)
doing it for free is not the same as doing it for cash.
If you do it for free maybe you get a F or get kicked out but for cash may mean doing some time.
Top Student (Score:4, Insightful)
Was he really the top student, or did he fix his own grades too?
He has a good future. (Score:4, Insightful)
lucky brat. then he will be able to fix grades all he wants, and will be paid for and applauded for it.
bah! (Score:2, Insightful)
You know, 25 years ago I managed to get a hold of a teacher's grade book. I modified my mark on one test, just because I was annoyed at having an overall average under 90%.
(We didn't have A or C grades, nor GPA... just a mean average of all tests in the year. 85% right, 97% right, etc)
Funny thing is, first -- he did not notice until a friend of mine kept saying 'doesn't that 8 look weird?' to the teacher. ;) It was all good fun, in that, we could not believe he had not noticed.
However, the downside was -- woha, the mark I changed were zeroed out. He felt that was punishment enough, in that, I had moved from 87% to 83% in terms of my new average.
How the *hell* does any of this result in criminal charges. My *god*, these are *kids*. Criminal charges?! Teenagers do *stupid* things. They do them on the spur of the moment. Punishment is required so one can learn that there are repercussions, but come on!
Suspend them for a week, if you must. Force them to donate the money to charity, or some such. Zero out all the grades they changed, if you must.
Call the police?! What is *wrong* with people?!