Tag: HIGHSCHOOL

Police in Nevada have arrested a 19-year-old college student, accusing him of hacking into his high school's computer system and inflating students' grades in exchange for money. The suspect, Tyler Coyner, allegedly obtained the password to Pahrump Valley High School's network, giving him the ability to change students' grades. Coyner, who is currently enrolled as a student at the University of ...

Lyndon Baty's weakened immune system won't allow him to attend classes at his local high school in Knox City, Texas. Fortunately, though, there's a robot capable of doing that for him. Baty, who suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease, is now remotely attending his freshman classes via a VGO robot, which allows him to interact with his teachers and fellow students from the comfort of his own ...

Facebook has removed a controversial page from its platform, at the request of Long Island school officials. The page, titled "Nassau's Nasty List," reportedly served as an online forum for salacious rumors about specific female students at Uniondale High School, and provided detailed information on alleged sexual dalliances. As news of the page spread to other schools in the region, more users ...

A suburban Illinois student is facing expulsion for ranking 50 of his female classmates, and posting the list to Facebook. The unnamed Oak Park-River Forest High School student, who has since been suspended, also gave other male students hard copies of the list, which ranked girls based on their physical attractiveness and level of alleged promiscuity, and labeled them with names such as "Fallen ...

Share A 16-year-old high school student has been arrested in Indianapolis, after posting ominous threats on his Facebook page. The boy, a special-needs student at Warren Central High School, allegedly wrote that he would "shoot up the school" after the Martin Luther King Day holiday. "Your dreams will be broken by Warren Central, no more Nice Guy," reads one of the suspect's posts. "I mean ...

Two teenage girls from Florida were arrested Wednesday, on allegations that they had set up a fake Facebook account in their classmate's name, and filled it with sexually explicit photos. According to the police report, the fake Facebook page first appeared on April 20th, and eventually accumulated 181 friends. A second page under the same victim's name surfaced on April 29th, and attracted ...

Share A teenager from New York thinks he's cracked the SAT -- and he says he did it with a little help from Facebook. Fourteen-year-old Milo Beckman apparently wanted to test the research of MIT professor Les Perelman, who had claimed that longer essays resulted in higher SAT scores. According to the College Board, these essays aren't graded according to any rigorous criteria, but on the "general ...

Getting in trouble because of Facebook is so passe and predictable. Astonishingly, though, three Huntsville, Alabama high school students have contributed a startling new chapter to Facebook crime and punishment. Grissom High School administrators apparently have far too much time on their hands, though, because these Alabama students were reprimanded over an incredibly mundane and harmless ...

Last week, a 17-year-old Pennsylvania student received $33,000 in settlement money from the Tunkhannock Area School District, which the student (and her lawyers, from the American Civil Liberties Union) accused of illegally searching her cell phone. The lawsuit was initiated in May, after the student -- named in court documents only as "N.N." -- had her phone confiscated while using it in class ...

Niche social networking runs rampant, and the latest site to match up particular bedfellows is, according to Wired, designed to bring together college football recruiters and high school football players. Created by the son of an NFL broadcaster, Play Next Level is a place where kids who dream of playing college pigskin can create profiles to attract recruiters (and maybe earn a scholarship). So ...

Today in Recession-omics: Using your kid's quasi-misfortune to exploit constitutional law for millions of dollars. Just follow in the footsteps of John Beaird of Irving, Texas, and you're on your way. Beaird's daughter Madelyn is your typical teen texting fiend. According to The33TV, MacArthur High School officials thought that the student might have some information about a situation ...

Share In a compelling article (PDF) titled 'White Flight in Networked Publics -- How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook,' Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd argues that race and social class were significant factors in the 2006 teenage exodus from MySpace to Facebook. As Technology Review reports, the author uses statistical and anecdotal evidence to ...

In theory, it's a noble public initiative to provide every high school student with the latest, high-tech laptops. What's not so noble, though, is to make every kid pay for it themselves. As of September 2011, every student attending Beverly High School in Massachusetts will be required to have their own MacBook as part of a district-wide campaign to modernize classroom technology. According ...

After Governor Chris Christie proposed widespread cuts in funding for New Jersey's educational system, one former New Jersey high school student took it upon herself to organize a statewide walkout, via Facebook. Eighteen-year-old Michelle Ryan Lauto, a student at Pace University, created a special event on Facebook calling for all students to take to the streets in protest during regular ...

digg_url =' http://www.switched.com/2009/08/30/high-school-and-porn-site-have-similar-web-addresses/'; A Florida high school is having serious problems with its Web presence, and it has nothing to do with viruses, spam, or hackers. Both PaceHighSchool.net and PaceHighSchool.com are working perfectly fine; unfortunately, one address is for a public Florida high school and the other is for a ...