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).
