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January 18, 2014

Online cheating scandal at Gallup school

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by Rick Nathanson, Albuquerque Journal

Technological savvy and entrepreneurial spirit worked out OK for Microsoft’s Bill Gates – not so good for a high school senior in Gallup who was expelled for stealing a teacher’s password, hacking into online courses and taking money from other students to change their grades. “As a school administrator, it’s the worst case of cheating I’ve ever seen,” Miyamura High School principal John Overheim said on Friday. “Part of it is the nature of the digital age. Once you acquire a password and the access is there, the temptation is great; and after all, they are teenagers and they don’t always make the best decisions.”

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