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In helping your children achieve better grades, there’s a right way, and they're many wrong ways. A Pennsylvania woman this month found that her wrong way of helping could cost her 7 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
Caroline Maria McNeal of Huntingdon was charged a week ago with 29 counts of unlawful use of a computer and 29 counts of tampering with public records after being caught using school computers to improve her daughter’s grades and lower the grades of two other girls. McNeal worked as a secretary at the school and used the passwords of other office workers to change the grades and to boost her daughter’s SAT score.
She probably wasn’t even aware that these were criminal actions, but apparently now McNeal will need to have her Mother of the Year award mailed to the state penitentiary. A jury might have some sympathy for helping your own daughter, but illegally lowering grades of other students is downright evil. McNeal’s lawyer should be telling her to cop a plea because a jury of her peers would want to hang her.
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 an SAT score raised from 1370 to 1730. Quite ingenious. When discovered, just claim a dyslexic inputted the data. Probably, some of the grade changes went from 69 to 96, 59 to 95, 19 to 91, and so on.
It’s scary to think what else this woman might be capable of. My experience is that people who lie and cheat like this have had frequent practice. Certainly, the IRS should be auditing her recent returns. And her Facebook profile probably lists her as a 23-year-old single supermodel.
I’ve searched to see if McNeal has made any statements in her defense or if her local newspaper might have published more details about this story, but only found many multiple copies of the original Associated Press coverage. I did find this funny statement in another blog: “I guess that calls for a new Latin phrase, to be posted on a Valedictorian's diploma. You've seen ‘Magna’ and ‘Summa.’ Now there's this graduation addendum – ‘Momma Cum Laude.’”
McNeal’s over the top actions make me not feel guilty anymore about building the Golden Gate Bridge replica out of toothpicks for my 1sg-grade daughter.
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Eagle Pass administrators just made pseudo interviews last week at C.C. Winn. A counselor from C.C. Winn was reassigned to E. P. Jr. High just for the purpose of making a position available to hire the wife of the new head coach they just hired. Why have all the interviewees go through the process of an interview? They do this to cover up their scheme. Did they go through all this just so that they won't lose another coach so quickly? Who is responsible? C.C. Winn administrators? or E.P.I.S.D. administrators? And then we say "porque no avansamos?" I know that there were some highly qualified couselor applicants.
An Easy way to become a counselor? Be the wife of the newly hired coach at C.C. Winn. And the corrupt school district will sacrifice a current counselor and reassign her to EPJH in hopes of keeping a coach this time around. And cover everything up by having fake interviews.
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