Okay, he wasn't really being humble. He was just trying to evade detection. Maybe down the road, he could expunge his record. Or he could just downgrade the original charges, just a little.Once he’d hacked into his high school’s computerize grading system four years ago, a Glenbard South student didn’t electronically elevate himself to the honor roll.
Abraham Ali, a junior at the time, merely erased some F’s and replaced them with humble scores of D. “He told a school official he was trying to be subtle,” Assistant DuPage County State’s Attorney Diane Michalak said Thursday, as Ali, 21, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempted computer tampering.
The Glen Ellyn resident was sentenced to 60 days of work-release in the county jail and paid more than $11,000 in court-ordered restitution.
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And he'd been absent NINE TIMES...
Posted by: Ruth | Friday, January 18, 2013 at 11:44 PM
The kid had enough brains to get into the school's computer system and tamper with his grades.
Apparently he thought that was a better idea than trying harder in class, or any other method. Why he thought that was the case is the most interesting takeaway, for my mind anyway.
Posted by: Nick | Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 12:49 PM