When i was in high school i caused more than my share of stress-induced ulcers. One day during my junior year i was called down to the office. upon arrival i was told by the vice principal that the new attendance-tracking computer indicated that i had been late to a class 3 times. This was not the case and even when the teacher backed me up, i was told that their system doesnt make mistakes and that i was to serve 3 days in detention. I went to dentention and silently vowed to show them just how weak their system was.
Armed with no more than an exacto knife, some white paper and some old used hall passes, out-of the-building passes, and admit slips, i started working. I cut all of the typed text from the passes and pasted them onto the paper in the same places where they were on the originals. Then i went to the library and used their copier to make many copies. I cut them into the same shape as the originals and viola, I had copies that just needed the details (name, time, reason for early dissmissal)hand written in just like the ones the office used. I needed a signature from an administrator for these to be valid, so one day when the secretaries were out for lunch i went into the office and "appropriated" one of the rubber stamps with the vice principal's signature.
I then proceeded to sell sell the forgeries to any student with a dollar to pay for them. Flushed with how easy this was, i made another trip to the office and "liberated" a blank copy of the form needed to change people's schedules. For $5.00 i could get you out of spanish class and into an open study hall for the rest of the school year. Once these forms were filled out and had the vp's sig on them, i followed the procedure the secretaries used.... i put it in the teacher's mail box in the office. I even went to the effort of typing a memo on the school distict letterhead announcing that seniors age 18 and over could smoke in the courtyard in hopes of preventing fires from students possibly starting fires in the restrooms due to smoking. I left dozens of these on tables in the commons. You should have seen the reaction when the seniors started liting up and had a memo signed by the vp saying they could.
Four weeks later i was called to the office again. The vp showed me a rather long print out of students the computer showed as being granted early dissmissal because they had a pass yet they had no record of it in the office hard-copy files. Then he went into the 30+ schedule changes that i facillitated. And of course, the memo. I told him i did all of it and how i did it. When he asked why i reminded him of the statement he made about their flawless system. He threatened to expell me and press forgery charges. I agreed that he should and that i was so guilt-ridden for what i had done that i should appologize publically on one of the local tv stations ( the one that loves to trash the schools for incompitance. I ended up with a 5 day suspention instead.
The moral that ties this to the student in the article...if you make gratuitious claims of infallability, be ready to be the object of someone's complete and undivided attention.
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When i was in high school i caused more than my share of stress-induced ulcers. One day during my junior year i was called down to the office. upon arrival i was told by the vice principal that the new attendance-tracking computer indicated that i had been late to a class 3 times. This was not the case and even when the teacher backed me up, i was told that their system doesnt make mistakes and that i was to serve 3 days in detention. I went to dentention and silently vowed to show them just how weak their system was. Armed with no more than an exacto knife, some white paper and some old used hall passes, out-of the-building passes, and admit slips, i started working. I cut all of the typed text from the passes and pasted them onto the paper in the same places where they were on the originals. Then i went to the library and used their copier to make many copies. I cut them into the same shape as the originals and viola, I had copies that just needed the details (name, time, reason for early dissmissal)hand written in just like the ones the office used. I needed a signature from an administrator for these to be valid, so one day when the secretaries were out for lunch i went into the office and "appropriated" one of the rubber stamps with the vice principal's signature. I then proceeded to sell sell the forgeries to any student with a dollar to pay for them. Flushed with how easy this was, i made another trip to the office and "liberated" a blank copy of the form needed to change people's schedules. For $5.00 i could get you out of spanish class and into an open study hall for the rest of the school year. Once these forms were filled out and had the vp's sig on them, i followed the procedure the secretaries used.... i put it in the teacher's mail box in the office. I even went to the effort of typing a memo on the school distict letterhead announcing that seniors age 18 and over could smoke in the courtyard in hopes of preventing fires from students possibly starting fires in the restrooms due to smoking. I left dozens of these on tables in the commons. You should have seen the reaction when the seniors started liting up and had a memo signed by the vp saying they could. Four weeks later i was called to the office again. The vp showed me a rather long print out of students the computer showed as being granted early dissmissal because they had a pass yet they had no record of it in the office hard-copy files. Then he went into the 30+ schedule changes that i facillitated. And of course, the memo. I told him i did all of it and how i did it. When he asked why i reminded him of the statement he made about their flawless system. He threatened to expell me and press forgery charges. I agreed that he should and that i was so guilt-ridden for what i had done that i should appologize publically on one of the local tv stations ( the one that loves to trash the schools for incompitance. I ended up with a 5 day suspention instead. The moral that ties this to the student in the article...if you make gratuitious claims of infallability, be ready to be the object of someone's complete and undivided attention.