Friday, May 4, 2007

Cash-for-grades scandal...

This beats MBA students cheating on a test...

SFGate Article
More than 70 current and former students at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill are being investigated for allegedly paying bribes of up to $600 to have their grades raised on official transcripts, officials said Thursday.

College officials believe as many as 400 grades were changed, casting a cloud over the school's transcripts.

About 74 students are believed to have paid student employees to change grades dating back several years, said Charles Gibson, Contra Costa Community College District police chief, at a news conference.

Eleven of the 74 students still attend the college and could face expulsion, while the others have transferred to schools across the country, where they could face disciplinary action, officials said.

Hmm, I'm beginning to think kids today are more stupid than before. In the '80s, we didn't pay people to change our grades, we just hacked into the school system and change it ourselves!






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OK, that's not me... it's Ally Sheedy from War Games. Coincidentally, of all the "celebrities" that came to speak at UCLA, the only person I saw was Ally. She was pretty boring.

3 comments:

ocgal22 said...

What I never understood is why did they change the grade to a C? Why not give yourself at least a B for the effort??

Darryl said...

Because its pretty obvious you've been slacking in class, and it is probably less of a stretch to believe you might have pulled some serious all-nighter and eked out a C, than to believe you actually defied all logical grading constructs to whip out a B...

ocgal22 said...

Nah, if you're going to change it, make a statement. The teacher will know regardless! :)