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Class president at Cooper City High charged with changing grades of 19 students

By Douane D. James
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted December 13 2006

Cooper City High School's senior class president was arrested Tuesday and charged in a grade-tampering scandal that has rocked the campus.

Ryan C. Shrouder, 18, of Cooper City, was taken to jail from school and charged with two counts of computer crime with intent to defraud, a second-degree felony, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office report. He was released from jail on bail, has been suspended from school and will be recommended for expulsion, said Joe Melita, head of the Broward County School District's investigative unit.

Shrouder serves as the alternate student advisor to the Broward School Board. He often sits in on board meetings and was issued a school district laptop computer. Sheriff's Office investigators say Shrouder took advantage of that access and used an employee password to access the district's network and change the grades of 19 students. It's unclear whether authorities think he changed his own grades.

Beta wrote:Ironically enough, Bill Gates used his High School computer Savy to get into classes with hot girl, not change grades...and look at him now...he blows his nose with $100 bills.