<p>Reading this thread, several things come to mind
- The OP might not have as much privacy as he/she assumed if they sent the emails from school using school computers and servers. In our district students have been disciplined for Google searches done at school that they thought were anonymous. There may be a school policy and or acknowledgement signed by the students as to fair use by administration to access information sent over the computer. There is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) but the Patriot Act allowed more leeway so it may have been legal for school authorities to access the email. Lesson learned- don’t do it from school or work
- As I get older I look at the whole picture and the ramifications of any action. Of course we want to do the moral thing, but at what price? Is it worth putting a cloud over the school for years to come and potentially harming future innocent students from that school who might apply to those schools??? A better course of action would have gotten a better result without causing the fallout to others. How?
First, you better make sure that you are 100% correct and he’s not puffing/bluffing/blustering as you are interfering with his life and future. What if he was lying to you and he told the truth on his application?? By contacting the schools with false information (yours), you put yourself in a position to be a defendant in a lawsuit for a host of causes of action…Good luck with that… People have been known to lie to their friends. Unless you actually saw the submitted application, you don’t know what he told the schools, yet you chose to action that could damage his reputation and opportunities at that school.
Several things don’t make sense with your “story”. How do you know that several colleges called the school to verify his leadership positions? It is doubtful that the teachers or administrators would have told other students about such a call…
Bottom line- unless you are 100% sure that you are correct, before you go destroying another person’s life, you deserve the blowback based on your actions…</p>