November 27, 2007
Those Milton Academy Kids Will Do Anything to Get Some
When the students of the tony Milton Academy aren't busy getting their freak on, they are hacking into computers and stealing information. David Abel at the Globe reports:
A Milton Academy student has been expelled and three others have been suspended for the rest of the school year after they hacked into the elite private school's computer system, changed grades, altered attendance records, and, in one case, gained access to an exam before it was administered, according to a letter school officials sent to parents last week.
As if these students don't have enough advantages in life, such as loaded parents, guidance counselors who know what an SAT is, an readily available sex, they have to make even more. Maybe they did the hacking in exchange for an Eiffel Tower! (If you don't know what it is, you probably don't want to know.) Anyway, while the budding hackers are showing some computer skills and initiative, changing their grades reveals outright laziness. Guess who's not getting into an Ivy, unless their parents really work the connections?
Image of Milton from the official website. The logo on the homepage says "Dare to Be True."
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Just be glad they didn't start playing Global Thermonuclear War and tying up the Pentagon computers...
Whoever wrote this clearly doesn't know ANYBODY at Milton Academy and only gets her information through other pieces of news. I go to milton academy and NOBODY in the ENTIRE school is like that except the kids who get in trouble. and they get in trouble because its SO RARE that the administration sees whats happening right away because its so out of the ordinary. and the sex scandal...also out of the ordinary...every school has a sexually promiscuous girl and horny boys...thats part of highschool, unfortuneatly these kids were exploited from milton and not from all the other schools where the same thing is happening. check your facts and give milton a break it is a great school with great kids...the ones who made mistakes were punished accordingly...there are still 600 great kids attending the school- forcus on them.
While I did not go to Milton, I did go to a school in the Independent School League (the athletic league of private schools that Milton is in) and I felt a lot of what Caroline is saying in this post is just prejudiced assumptions. Are there rich douchebags at these schools who have undeserving senses of entitlement? Sure, but there are also kids who don't have "loaded parents" and all the advantages that come with copious amounts of money.
Has it been proven that the idiots who did this were, in fact, overprivileged douchebags? Additionally, I do not necessarily see the connection between hacking into computers and having a three-some that mimics famous global landmarks (in fact, I would think that the two would be inversely related).
Actually, the kids who did this were quite the opposite of over-privileged and none of them were douche-bags. They were misguided, but are nice, very intelligent kids. Both the part about loaded parents and readily available sex are so false.
They were far from overpriviledged.
"Far from overprivileged" -- gimme a break! At a school that costs nearly 40 grand to attend! And that funds a few token students to deflect criticism for being elitist! That's hilarious ... Soon we'll be hearing that BU is the school with an "urban mission" in town, not UMass-Boston ... Open your eyes, fools!
You obviously have no connection to any boarding school at all. At Milton and many other boarding schools a great percentage of students are on significant scholarships and therefore do not need to be underprivileged to attend the school. Please find out what you are talking about before making an ignorant statement and criticizing someone whom obviously knows the students personally.
PS. You are pretty fucking retarded
Quote from Mac:
"'Far from overprivileged'--gimme a break! At a school that costs nearly 40 grand to attend! And that funds a few token students to deflect criticism for being elitist!"
First of all, tuition is closer to 30 grand. And the finacial aid budget is 5.4 million. Do the math.
As for the author of the article...I still fail to see what sex and hacking have to do with each other...
Let's face it, none of this would be getting so much attention if Milton didn't have such a reputation to begin with; I feel like people are using us as a scapegoat for class prejudices. Like, not only are these rich, spoiled private school kids no better than you, they're actually BIGGER screw-ups.
Personally, I'm upset at the reputation we're getting. The name of my school used to be associated with our predecessors: Deval Patrick, T.S. Elliot, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, James Taylor, etc. Now they're just like oh, haha, you go to the sex school. Now is it going to be haha, you go to the cheater school? That'll be fun once college-application time comes around, because it's NOT as if we can "work the connections."
I'm not sure if Ted Kennedy is someone you would use to defend Milton's reputation.
I'm really impressed, fuckyoumac, that you decided to name yourself after me. Thanks so much for demonstrating such dignity and originality.
It's too bad that you are being upstaged by people out there with a real argument, like vck, who rightly made the point about being a scapegoat for class privilege. S/he's right -- but so what? This is a class privilege that I don't have much respect for. Such schools are inherently anti-meritocratic. How can any school claim to cull out the best and the brighest at the age of 14? This place deserves some criticism, as with any school that charges 14-year-old boarders $38.5K.
fuckyoumac, I wish didn't you played the usual victim card of being discriminated against by prejudiced outsiders. Nowadays every trust-fund baby is as victimized as an inner-city black kid. (Know any of them, fuckyoumac?)
"I'm not sure if Ted Kennedy is someone you would use to defend Milton's reputation."
Haha, okay. I was just trying to think of famous alumns.
"This place deserves some criticism, as with any school that charges 14-year-old boarders $38.5K."
Well, it certainly isn't easy to pay tuition. But the school DOES make great effort to fulfill the needs of all accepted applicants, regardless of financial circumstances. Also, most of the school budget comes from tuition, and that helps it to be a better school--that's the point.
Even so, you may be right. However, the defensive comments on this board have been reacting not to insults to the school, but insults by both you and the author of this article to the STUDENTS at Milton Academy, saying that we are ALL overprivileged and therefore less qualified (that's the wrong word, but you know what I mean) to make mistakes in judgment.
We (I think I am right in saying) also reacting to the gross generalizations made by the author of the article. I know that they were for comedic/sarcastic effect, but talking about how we love to "get [our] freak on", are all just lazy hackers, and can rely on money and legacy to get where we want to in life is bound to offend us.
It is a wealthy school, so there is no denying that there are very rich kids enrolled. However, there are many kids, including some of those involved in the incident, who are not wealthy at all. It is a incredibly diverse place, both socioeconomically and ethnically.