Comment by saltminer
4 years ago
>and according to them concern about the grade book system being exposed??
Junior year in high school, I got suspended for "hacking."
The tl;dr is that I was using a proxy to fetch assignments for class (because the county decided "yeah, this state run Moodle instance is obviously not appropriate for education" and one of my classes used Moodle) and got caught with the proxy configuration screen open. I wish I was joking.
Anyway, when I was sitting in the guidance counselor's office as the teacher was talking up how "dangerous" I was, I noticed a sticky note with a username and password written on it. Turns out it was an admin account for the gradebook, though I think it was just intended for scheduling.
I never did anything bad with those credentials, but that really tanked what little respect I still had for the administrators there.
On a lighter note, when stack exchange & co got blocked the next year, I was good friends with the librarians since I helped out a fair amount fixing up their laptop carts (and doing other things the sysadmins were too busy to take care of), and they were able to get them unblocked. It taught me a lot about office politics: people are willing to return favors, so you should always make those connections.
>but that really tanked what little respect I still had for the administrators there.
I mean, why did you have any in the first place?
I've met very, very few employees of high schools who were worthy of any sort of intellectual or professional respect.
yeah, those inner connections were really important. guess it was a good thing my brother was friends with the tech person at our school.
Yep. It's also a general signal that you'r a good actor willing to do the work. An observer with no interaction can see what you did for the librarians and put in a good word for you somewhere without you ever even knowing.