Crime doesn’t pay, especially when it comes to grades. 19 year old, Nevada student Tyler Coyner was able to obtain the password to the Pahrump Valley High School’s computer grading system. Once in the system Coyner not only changed is own grades but those of twelve other students at the school, for a price of course. Everyone who has watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off probably remembers when Ferris hacks into the school’s computer and changes his own grades. In this case we laugh it off because he only gives himself a passing grade as well as removing some absent days – and of course it is fictional, that might have something to do with it.
Coyner went a little farther than passing grades, already a top student, he increased his grades to make himself his graduating class’s salutatorian – the student with the second highest average. At his graduation ceremony, following the valedictorian’s speech, Coyner gave his salutatorian speech. The speech is available on Youtube, where he talks about his experiences in highschool and how he “changed for the better.” Coyner is currently enrolled at the University of Nevada. His dorm was searched as part of the grade changing investigation, on an unrelated note they found a stolen television, a fake driver’s license and a bunch of fake IDs. He is now facing burglary charges as well as conspiracy and forgery charges, which carry a jail sentence of two to ten years by themselves. Good to see he is getting off to a good start at university.
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