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August 2008 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
New OC Reality TV - Celebrity Cheating!
July
18,
2008
A
couple of weeks ago, the Orange County DA charged two
Tesoro High School students with cheating.
On June 17, 2008, the Orange County DA announced
that it had charged Coto de Caza's Omar Khan, 18,
with 34 felony counts of altering a public
record, 11 felony counts of stealing and secreting a
public record, seven felony counts of computer access
and fraud, six felony counts of burglary, four felony
counts of identity theft, three felony counts of
altering a book of records, two felony counts of
receiving stolen property, one felony count of
conspiracy, and one felony count of attempted altering
of a public record. He faces a maximum sentence of 38
years and four months in prison if convicted.
Co-defendant Tanvir Singh, 18, Ladera Ranch, is
charged with one felony count each of conspiracy,
burglary, computer access and fraud, and attempted
altering of a public record. He faces a maximum
sentence of three years in prison if convicted.
In the case of the Tesoro High School students,
Celebrity lawyer and television legal analyst Mark
Geragos has been hired to defend the
students.
More recently Trabuco High School students and
parents, have organized a coalition called Justice for
375 Trabuco Scholars and staged a rally Wednesday, at
Trabuco Hills High, featuring Assemblyman
Todd Spitzer. The premise being that
only ten admitted AP Test cheaters should be held
accountable, not 690 - the Educational Testing Service
(ETS) invalidated 690 exams earlier this month.
According to a July 17 letter from the Educational
Testing Service's attorney, an investigator for the
national administrator of the college-level Advanced
Placement exams found evidence that more than 10
Trabuco Hills High School students cheated on
their tests in May, 2008. The letter does
not support the "only ten cheated" premise.
Consider that according to Stephen Davis, a psychology
professor at Emporia State University in Kansas,
surveys of college students in the 1940s showed that
20 percent of them admitted to having cheated in high
school, whereas according to a 1998 survey by the
Josepheson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey, 70
percent of high-school students (and 54 percent of
middleschool students) said they'd cheated on an exam.
The story is not only an apparent trend, consistent
with the Josepheson Institute of Ethics study cited
above, but has all the trappings of a potentially
popular reality TV show: Celebrity Cheating,
where kids attempt to get away with egregious
activity, and if caught, a celebrity defendant
is standing by to represent them!
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