what happens to a kid who forges teachers' signatures?

[grasswire]

Oboy. The teenager forgot to get permission signatures from his teachers for his week away at outdoor school (nature camp run by the school district), and so this morning he forged their required signatures on the form, and then turned it in at the camp.

Expelled?

Suspended?

Damned stupid. He's a senior. He'll be needing those teachers to write recommendations for him. He'll be needing the credit for being a counselor at the outdoor school.

[Zavulon]

1. I got a week of detention for doing that, but

that was back in the 80's. No idea how it'd be dealt with now.

[grasswire]

3. he was stupid enough to leave his practice paper...

...on the dining room table. The paper where he practiced their signatures. Gah!

[Zavulon]

5. Yeesh.

With all due respect, make sure the teenager does not pursue a life of crime. It's obviously not the teenager's strong suir.

Best wishes, hope it all works out in your favor. :)

[grasswire]

6. well, he WAS thinking about the CIA....

....wow. Seriously.

[Zavulon]

7. Well, if he has skills in target languages such as Arabic, the CIA mighrt be a good fit, but

if we're talking undercover work, we'd best hope that his leaving the list out in the open was an aberration. ;)

[Tom Kitten]

2. A Penalty should be imposed.

Just because he's a senior doesn't mean forgery is any less a crime.

[jmm]

4. Does his school know or

do you get to decide his punishment?

I did a lot worse in high school and didn't get caught.

[grasswire]

8. we don't know that yet (eom)

[jmm]

11. Despite his slip-up at home

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't catch him. If the teachers would've said yes anyways and he's an otherwise good kid then they probably wouldn't have a reason to question him.

That doesn't mean you can't punish him and make him afraid he will get caught or turned in.

If he does get caught most schools will use some discretion, even when there are clear rules, in matters such as this. Once in college a girl stole a paper of mine and plagiarized it. After the professor threatened to have me expelled I called and let her know if I was going down I would take her down with me. She admitted what she did but gave a sob story and got an extension on the assignment.

[Jeep789]

9. My nephew (and some of his friends) recently got suspended for

forging school parking permits. He is a senior too (straight A, honor student). The school promised it would not go on his permanent record so it wouldn't affect college admissions. He just got in to Cornell so I guess it didn't hurt him.

Stupid thing to do but it has been scientifically proven that their brains do not work correctly (at least by adult standards) at that age.

[Kali]

10. this day and age? probably jail time

I will NEVER forget my son getting in trouble for - get this - climbing on the playground equipment. Yes. He was climbing a support pole instead of whatever the official sanctioned climbing thing was...authoritarianism is strong in public school

[Common Sense Party]

12. I used to impersonate my dad all the time, calling the school to "excuse

my son from school" today, or at least from the last half of the day.

Worked pretty well.

[Jeep789]

13. I didn't think of it till just now but I used to forge my parents sigs

on tardy notes all the time. Yikes, I really never considered it a crime. Seemed like the smart thing to do at the time.