Sunday, May 11, 2008
Recently there has been a lot of talk in newspapers and online about the New Trier student who hacked the system in order to find out his class rank. After being caught he has been suspended for the rest of the year, is not allowed to walk at graduation, and has lost acceptance to MIT, the college he enrolled in prior to the hacking. In the paper it said the student could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Honestly in my opinion this is way too big of a punishment. The kid just wanted to know his class rank because New Trier doesnt provide it to their students. I'm not saying that he shouldnt be punished but jail time for trying to find out how well he ranks among others in his class? Thats ridiculous. It was not meant to hurt anyone, he didnt purposely go through peers' scores to know what they got on standardized tests, he just wanted to know where he stood gradewise in relation to his classmates. I think he has learned his lesson by being suspended but hopefully the authorities rethink all their punishments and ask themselves is what he did really worth all of this?
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I agree 100 percent. What the kid did was definitely wrong, but if I was as tech savvy as him I might have done the same thing. New Trier has set up an abnormally competitive atmosphere, and things like class rankings are very very important students. So while I think the student should be punished (maybe some community service) the administration and community need to try to change the atmosphere of New Trier. I feel so strongly about this I'm going over to my own blog and blogging about it now.
The school did this. I agree with maseeh. If i was as driven as this kid was and was only set up for disappointment i could see myself doing the same. The competitive atmosphere of the school is out of hand.
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