Pa. Mom Charged With Changing Daughter's Grades

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HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) - A high school secretary illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter's class standing, according to criminal charges filed Thursday.

Caroline Maria McNeal of Huntingdon is accused of using the passwords of three co-workers without their knowledge to tamper with dozens of grades and test scores between May 2006 and July 2007 at Huntingdon Area High School in central Pennsylvania, the state attorney general's office said.

McNeal, 39, is alleged to have improved her daughter Brittany's grades and reduced those of two classmates to enhance Brittany's standing in the 2008 graduating class.

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1. this made me laugh

though it's pretty sad when you think about it.

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2. I can believe it

One of the parents of a classmate was on the PTA and she petitioned to get choir weighted to raise her daughter's GPA. It worked.

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3. I guess there are limits to "parental involvement."

LOL! If it had been my mom, she would have reduced my grades just to have more to yell at me about. (She would also have put comments like, "He never cleans his room and he teases his sister.")