Interesting article...
Feb. 19th, 2005 04:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Here.
The whole thing reminded me of someone I once knew, S. S went to Stuy with me, though we never really talked. We knew each other (we'd been in the same fifth grade class). She hung out with the people on the fourth floor.
Anyway, one day I'm on the boat, heading to school, and S is there with her mom. And she corners me, and asks me to swing by the people on the fourth floor, and tell them "don't say anything, they can't prove anything". I was mildly curious, so I agreed to do this, but when I went by there, everyone was gone. There were always 5-10 people in that same spot, so this was... strange.
Eventually, I found out that S had been expelled for hacking into the computers and changing grades. Not, mind you, changing grades from a 55 to a 65, or from a 90 to a 95, but changing grades from, say, failing to 100. If she'd just passed herself and her friends, nobody would have known, but....
Well, anyway, her mom sued the school. And they let her back in. She'd been kicked out for several months, but they let her back in.
*shrugs* It didn't really matter. She eventually dropped out and took her GED, and joined some branch of the Armed Forces. Her dad, I guess, gave up on promising to pay her tuition to Columbia (which, mind you, she could never have been accepted into).
The whole thing reminded me of someone I once knew, S. S went to Stuy with me, though we never really talked. We knew each other (we'd been in the same fifth grade class). She hung out with the people on the fourth floor.
Anyway, one day I'm on the boat, heading to school, and S is there with her mom. And she corners me, and asks me to swing by the people on the fourth floor, and tell them "don't say anything, they can't prove anything". I was mildly curious, so I agreed to do this, but when I went by there, everyone was gone. There were always 5-10 people in that same spot, so this was... strange.
Eventually, I found out that S had been expelled for hacking into the computers and changing grades. Not, mind you, changing grades from a 55 to a 65, or from a 90 to a 95, but changing grades from, say, failing to 100. If she'd just passed herself and her friends, nobody would have known, but....
Well, anyway, her mom sued the school. And they let her back in. She'd been kicked out for several months, but they let her back in.
*shrugs* It didn't really matter. She eventually dropped out and took her GED, and joined some branch of the Armed Forces. Her dad, I guess, gave up on promising to pay her tuition to Columbia (which, mind you, she could never have been accepted into).
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Date: 2006-08-07 08:44 pm (UTC)Also? I never changed grades. What I'd done? I went to the library, and used a computer, that had been either previously used by a guidance counselor, or someone had changed the internet browser prefs to read the guidance counselor's email address.
At the time, I was not too internet-savvy, and I searched out a bunch of gaming stuff, then clicked on that little 'email from the browser' deal. When I saw the address coming up was not mine, I included a little blurb saying this was not my email, if they wanted to respond, they should respond to 'blah' email.
Some of those emails bounced, and the guidance counselor freaked out.
I never changed a single grade-nor, Connie, would I have needed to, either to help myself or my friends. All of us were achieving excellent grades in our classes-the only time any of us started failing is when they started implementing a mandatory attendance policy, which Stuy had been without, well..for at /least/ thirty years.
My father sued the school, and they let me back in..because I was actually innocent. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit into your vitriol, though.
And it /may/ interest you to know I went to college before joining the Army...or it may not. You seem to have significant levels of hate for me, though I'll have no idea why. My father never promised to pay my tuition to Columbia-he couldn't have afforded it, so I don't know where you're getting that from. Had I stayed and decided to attend class instead of just showing up for the tests? I could certainly have gotten in, as far less bright people than I did. But go ahead! Heap your coals of fire as you will!
If you want to actually respond to any of this, instead of ignoring it as is convenient, you can reach me at firstname dot lastname at us dot army dot mil.
I'd ask that you alter this to take my real name off the net, but I doubt you will. You clearly have a need to be bitter for some slight I certainly don't recall.
But
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Date: 2006-08-07 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-07 08:44 pm (UTC)Also? I never changed grades. What I'd done? I went to the library, and used a computer, that had been either previously used by a guidance counselor, or someone had changed the internet browser prefs to read the guidance counselor's email address.
At the time, I was not too internet-savvy, and I searched out a bunch of gaming stuff, then clicked on that little 'email from the browser' deal. When I saw the address coming up was not mine, I included a little blurb saying this was not my email, if they wanted to respond, they should respond to 'blah' email.
Some of those emails bounced, and the guidance counselor freaked out.
I never changed a single grade-nor, Connie, would I have needed to, either to help myself or my friends. All of us were achieving excellent grades in our classes-the only time any of us started failing is when they started implementing a mandatory attendance policy, which Stuy had been without, well..for at /least/ thirty years.
My father sued the school, and they let me back in..because I was actually innocent. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit into your vitriol, though.
And it /may/ interest you to know I went to college before joining the Army...or it may not. You seem to have significant levels of hate for me, though I'll have no idea why. My father never promised to pay my tuition to Columbia-he couldn't have afforded it, so I don't know where you're getting that from. Had I stayed and decided to attend class instead of just showing up for the tests? I could certainly have gotten in, as far less bright people than I did. But go ahead! Heap your coals of fire as you will!
If you want to actually respond to any of this, instead of ignoring it as is convenient, you can reach me at firstname dot lastname at us dot army dot mil.
I'd ask that you alter this to take my real name off the net, but I doubt you will. You clearly have a need to be bitter for some slight I certainly don't recall.
But
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Date: 2006-08-07 10:25 pm (UTC)