| The Student | The Choices |
|---|---|
| One of the special projects you worked on in your AP Computer Science class was a paper about pirated software. In researching the paper, you found a website that listed ways to tell if software on a system has been pirated. You test out this list against the school's system and discover the VPN software is pirated. You think you've made a mistake and investigate from a different angle, and confirm that the software is pirated. Your best friend advises you to say nothing, and promises that you will only get into trouble. One of the coolest kids is passing by when you are having this conversation and pauses to proclaim his certainty that you would never do anything that could get you into trouble. | Tell the cool gang that the VPN software is pirated, and that you know how to hack into the system. When they suggest they might tell on you for some of the things you did after prom, agree to change grades for them. |
| The Teacher | The Choices |
| When you look over the grades before report cards are printed, you notice that some of the grades don't seem to match what you would expect. However, you've kept no backup record of the grades, so you have no real way to check, other than going back through stacks and stacks of dusty papers that you heaped into an empty file drawer. You could adjust the grades to match your expectations, or you could go back and re-grade to recalculate the averages. | Accept that the grades are correct, even if they don't look quite right. |
| Change the student names to student IDs, and ask your daughter to help you review the grades. Since she changed the grades in the first place, she remembers the student IDs of the cool gang kids, and imagines you have found out what she did. She eventually confesses, and you take her to the headmaster to tell her story, despite how bad it will make you look as a family. |