SHORT
COMMUNICATION 371
Corona
del Mar Cheating Scandal
By
Roger
Behra
Corona del Mar is a nice city in
Southern California, but you have to be very rich or wealthy to live there.
They have a very good and productive school system that graduates high school
students that go on to bigger and better opportunities and lives.
Recently, however, Corona del Mar has suffered
through a major scandal that has involved some of their high school students:
It’s called HACKING. The evidence has indicated that the hacking has been going
on for quite some time and involves 11 students and a tutor. All 750, 000
grades are to be audited.
The evidence also indicates that the
tutor, Timothy Lai, was heavily involved. One of the 11 students told
administrators and the police that Lai has asked him to help him (Lai) break
into teachers’ computers. The informative student identified 11 other students
involved in the scheme, and on Dec. 17 security guards and the school
administrators escorted the 11 students from classes.
The evidence proves that the Corona
del Mar hacking was going on 6 months before the scandal became known to the
public, and that Lai was directly involved. When the police wanted him to be
interviewed, he came up missing. The police then obtained a search warrant and
searched his apartment and his car. In June, 2013 two high school girls were
expelled from school because their grades were actually changed. When the
police interviewed them they said a tutor did that for them. The girls would
not give the name of the tutor.
On one occasion a student and Lai
broke into the school during early morning hours and placed a device called a
keylogger on teachers’ computers. As a result many teachers were being hacked
at various times. Now all 750, 000 grades must be audited.
Hacking in general has become an
enormous problem in the America culture. Many people have been hurt and their
lives upset because of hacking. Many did not know their computers were hacked
and found out too late after important information was stolen from them. People
who have not been hacked feel great discomfort just knowing that it happen at
any time and to anyone. Hacking is a very insidious form of cheating. It is one
of the evils in the America culture that points to the fact that the American culture
is badly broken and beyond repair. Let us hope the Corona del Mar grade keeping
system is not beyond repair, because 750, 000 grades to review is an enormous
and exacting undertaking.
R.
B.
1-31-14
