RippedmyFlesh
06-26-2009, 08:45 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_mom_grade_tampering
The highlights of the article
Pa. mother charged with changing daughter's grades
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – A high school secretary illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter's class standing, according to criminal charges filed Thursday.
McNeal, 39, is alleged to have improved her daughter Brittany's grades and reduced those of two classmates to enhance Brittany's standing in the 2008 graduating class.
In all, McNeal is accused of altering nearly 200 scores and grades covering four school years.
The situation came to light in October 2007, when an employee of the high school guidance office discovered conflicting SAT scores for Brittany.
Scores provided directly by the College Board showed a cumulative score of 1370, while an unknown source had previously entered 1730, according to court papers.1
Further investigation revealed that the data had been entered from Caroline McNeal's computer starting more than a week before SAT scores for other students were entered.
Three other secretaries at the school told investigators they had shared their passwords with Caroline McNeal during vacations or other prolonged absences.
I have 2 grown children and know I would do things for them that I wouldn't do for anyone else. Changing grades is wrong so no sympathy for that. BUT....if she had just changed her daughter's grades and stopped at that I wouldn't condone it but maybe understand how an over zealous parent could act.
She crossed the line in messing with "others" grades in my book and went from over zealous parent to bitch.
The topping of the cake for me is the end user arrogance of entering the SAT a week early. Like saying to IT "your an idiot".
I couldn't be objective on her jury because I'd say "string her up"
Would you have given her more slack if she had stopped at just altering her own kid's records?
The highlights of the article
Pa. mother charged with changing daughter's grades
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – A high school secretary illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter's class standing, according to criminal charges filed Thursday.
McNeal, 39, is alleged to have improved her daughter Brittany's grades and reduced those of two classmates to enhance Brittany's standing in the 2008 graduating class.
In all, McNeal is accused of altering nearly 200 scores and grades covering four school years.
The situation came to light in October 2007, when an employee of the high school guidance office discovered conflicting SAT scores for Brittany.
Scores provided directly by the College Board showed a cumulative score of 1370, while an unknown source had previously entered 1730, according to court papers.1
Further investigation revealed that the data had been entered from Caroline McNeal's computer starting more than a week before SAT scores for other students were entered.
Three other secretaries at the school told investigators they had shared their passwords with Caroline McNeal during vacations or other prolonged absences.
I have 2 grown children and know I would do things for them that I wouldn't do for anyone else. Changing grades is wrong so no sympathy for that. BUT....if she had just changed her daughter's grades and stopped at that I wouldn't condone it but maybe understand how an over zealous parent could act.
She crossed the line in messing with "others" grades in my book and went from over zealous parent to bitch.
The topping of the cake for me is the end user arrogance of entering the SAT a week early. Like saying to IT "your an idiot".
I couldn't be objective on her jury because I'd say "string her up"
Would you have given her more slack if she had stopped at just altering her own kid's records?