Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Hatboro-Horsham School District said that the person or persons responsible for the dissemination of GPA and class rank information has been 'adjudicated through the Montgomery County Juvenile Court system in a manor we believe to be fair and just.'
The mystery about how Hatboro-Horsham High School students' grade point averages and class rank information was obtained and shared with fellow students has been solved. However, district officials are keeping mum on who is responsible for the information leak and the punishments levied against the person or persons. In a statement released to the media on Tuesday morning, the district announced the "successful conclusion" to a nearly seven-month-long investigation into the release of the information, but said the district would not release the name, grade or "any other identifying information of anyone charged in this matter." "Hatboro-Horsham also will not be releasing if the district took any kind of disciplinary action against those …
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
A student is suspected of disseminating class rank and GPA information to hundreds of Hatboro-Horsham High School students.
Expulsion is the least of the worries for the individuals involved in last month’s email distribution of sensitive information pertaining to the Hatboro-Horsham High School student body, according to a district official. With the FBI and Horsham Township Police on the case to find out how the information was sent via “hundreds of emails,” Hatboro-Horsham Assistant Superintendent John Nodecker told Patch that officials are “much closer” to determining the culprit – or culprits – behind the mass email. if it was a senior who sent the emails as a prank – as was rumored at the outset - Nodecker said that expulsion would be the most lenient of punishment. “The issue is much deeper than that,” Nodecker said of the school’s discipline of the …
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Local and federal authorities are investigating how Hatboro-Horsham High School students' GPA and class rank information was obtained and disseminated via email.
The Horsham Township Police Department and FBI’s Computer Forensics Lab continue to investigate how personal student information was retrieved and distributed to the student body earlier this month. The Hatboro-Horsham School District maintains that it's technology systems were not compromised through hacking in order to obtain class rank and GPA information that was sent to Hatboro-Horsham High School students in an email on May 23. Authorities continue to investigate how the unidentified person obtained the sensitive information. District officials updated high school students Thursday afternoon, according to a statement released by the school district. Assistant Superintendent John Nodecker told Patch previously that additional steps…
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Hatboro-Horsham School District officials said they do not believe the technology systems were compromised.
An investigation into how someone could have obtained class rank and grade point averages for Hatboro-Horsham High School students is underway, district officials said. In a district statement released Thursday afternoon, officials said that at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday an email from an "unidentified sender" containing class rank and GPA information was distributed to high school students. John Nodecker, Hatboro-Horsham School District assistant superintendent for secondary education, told Patch that it does not appear that the sender breached any of the district's security systems. "We've done a really intensive investigation," Nodecker said. "It appears to us that this information was for legitimate purposes and somebody …
Monday, July 11, 2011
The school board is expected to consider instituting a "hybrid model" next month. If approved, it would go into effect this fall.
What’s in a number anyway? It depends on whom you ask. Proponents of class ranking systems argue that competition is necessary to prepare kids for the real world. For Hatboro-Horsham High School principal Dennis Williams, numbers – as in where students rank as compared to their classmates – create unhealthy competition and often compel kids to take classes of little interest simply because of how another course ranks. “It actually penalizes many top students,” Williams said. “Colleges and universities are telling us not that class rank doesn’t matter, but it does not have nearly the impact that it did.” In February, following a committee’s study of class ranking which began in 2008, Williams recommended that the school board consider …
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9:13 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
You caught on quick. Now get the rest of Horsham residents to wake up. We just keep paying high priced salaries and too many at that and for what? more ›