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<p>Agreed–38 years is excessive. They probably could get less time for just murdering their teachers.</p>
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<p>Very funny. Nicely done.</p>
<p>? What is that school like that there are so many girls* all in one place ? </p>
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<p>*Going along with this get-pregnant together plan.</p>
<p>wow. I worry for the future of America. </p>
<p>Seriously though, a bunch of students at a school near mine was busted for hacking into the system. I don’t think they face jail time though! More like suspension. Personally, i think cheating is worse then getting caught for drinking, though the penalty is harsher for drinking in my school district.</p>
<p>Lol i went to high school one city away from Tesoro.</p>
<p>desperation</p>
<p>Hahahaha my friend has the same name as one of the kids. I can’t wait to ask him how it feels to be arrested with serious charges of theft/hacking.</p>
<p>But on a more serious note, I agree that 38 years is excessive, and my reasoning echoes Easy’s comment. Perhaps they are trying to scare the kid, teach him a lesson? In doing so, they would be setting an example to other kids thinking of messing with the school system.</p>
<p>And I agree with BunsenBurner, the photos of them grinning just seems so out of place. These guys have no idea what they’ve gotten themselves into.</p>
<p>I think that sometimes as children of the hightech age, we don’t realize the ramifications of our actions on the internet/computers. I know that I am often surprised when my mother thinks that my posting my favorite books on Facebook is too much info to reveal… However, these kids clearly should know better than to hack. It’s possible that they didn’t see hacking as equivalent to any other kind of breaking and entering…
As for physically breaking into the school and stealing, it’s hard for me to justify those behaviors as simple ‘mistakes’. I remember one thread written by a kid who had cheated on his AP by texting during the test. That’s a stupid mistake. Plotting to hack, break in, steal and change grades requires much more planning and premeditation. On the other hand, 38 years seems ridiculously excessive; rapists serve less time (though I doubt either will serve more than a year or two). Stupid mistake or not, their futures are ruined…</p>
<p>The 38 years is just a possibility not an actual sentence at this point. In fact the kid is not even convicted. If convicted, he will most likely get a much lower sentence and may even be probation than 38 years.</p>
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<p>Something like this just happened in Houston too. I’ll try to find the link. If I remember correctly, the kids just got suspended. The valedictorian was somehow involved, his punishment was that he couldn’t walk and give the speech at graduation, but he got to keep his designation as val.</p>
<p>Guess law enforcement is much more serious in CA ;)</p>
<p>Here it is:</p>
<p>[Houston</a> judge upholds Fort Bend ISD ban on valedictorian | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle](<a href=“http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/fortbend/news/5823149.html]Houston”>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/fortbend/news/5823149.html)</p>
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<p>Too bad grades are so important that students are desperate enough to do this. I think they’ll get probation/community service. I don’t think they should go to jail at all–what good would that do? Just costs the state money.</p>
<p>There will always be students who cheat–it is just much more high tech than it used to be.</p>
<p>True confession: more than 25 years ago, I was in an honors biology class. When the teacher was out of the room, a girl --in full view of the entire class–took the teacher’s gradebook back to her desk and wrote in 100% for all her missing lab reports for the semester. No one said anything. Though I was shocked at the girl’s boldness, I didn’t complain since she was my lab partner. (I had just been telling her that we needed to get together and finish our lab reports, then she was, like, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of them. . .” I had no idea what she had in mind!) Was I wrong not to tell? I didn’t want her to do it, I knew it was wrong–yet I didn’t want to rat on my friend, and honestly, I didn’t want to do the lab reports, either!</p>
<p>Their mug shots crack me up! They look so happy. Really, what clueless kids.</p>
<p>It’s a big problem when the media, particularly books, articles, movies, shows, etc feature hackers, cheaters and the such as heroes. Kids think that pranks, dissing the law, being smart alecks is the way to go. They don’t get that the consequences are not funny, and can be catastrophic to them and their families.</p>
<p>I’d much rather see them get a year of mandatory community service tutoring in an inner city school district eight hours a day than go to jail. These kids came from privileged backgrounds and could learn a thing or two about the value of an education by helping those who don’t have the same opportunities that they have had.</p>
<p>Its a classic case of kids and families and others who aspire to prestigious schools and make kids feel like they are failures unless they go to USC, UCLA, Berkeley, UC-Irvine or UCSB or UCSD. Ridiculous. Desperate people do desperate things. The cure? Stop this ridiculous prestige chasing neurosis. Now of course, they wont likely go to jail. But they are permanently tarnished with this crime and wont get into any college of import because of it. They should BOTH go to community college for two years do a LOT of community service and pray like heck they can transfer to a decent college later.</p>
<p>We live in a credentialist society and that is very sad.</p>
<p>It really troubles me how zealous the government is in prosecuting them. I say change their grades back to Cs and Ds and let em go. </p>
<p>what a waste of taxpayer dollars. I hope this isn’t what our 35% brackets are paying for.</p>
<p>what a waste of taxpayer dollars.</p>
<p>haha, you should not even be concerned about ur taxes going there. There are more important things such as the IRAQ war that we are fighting.</p>
<p>I think students are being influenced by the media too much. The things they do in the movies, the students think they can do in real life and thus attempt it. They do not see the consequences. And of course, im sure peer pressure , bribery (other kids paid them), involvment of other students played a role in this.</p>
<p>This is my school 
no lie. But I don’t recognize the kids at all, but that’s because we have almost 3000 students here. I think its kinda funny how it happened(or at least the cops and news van were there) on our last day of school and the day of graduation. Really sucks for them. </p>
<p>Also, its the same school where a couple of football kids a few years ago fantasized in their notebooks about killing their teacher and she actually checked the notebooks. Because of that my friend got to play as a quarterback on varsity football as a freshman.</p>
<p>I hope this was just a coincidence that we’ve had both of these things happen, because really, we have a lot of really good students that are going to do really great things in the future…</p>
<p>…figuring they’d lessen his chances of being admitted to the one of the campuses of the elite University of California system…</p>
<p>I suppose doing this stunt wouldn’t???</p>
<p>Stupid kids. Really.</p>
<p>Jeeze, was I ever this dumb?</p>
<p>Am I reading it right that both kids - the one in Texas and the recent one - were both named Khan. Maybe they should just change the spelling to “Con.”</p>