how severe would the punishment be if a student snuck back into a room and changed the grades in a teachers grade book... leaving computers out of it. In my school the student would have been expelled. not saying this is fair but it is a severe breach of every code there is. what this kid did is much more than just cheating. we're talking unauthorized access and altering records but certainly not on a par with how their dealing with it. The teacher was stupid to leave the computer un-attended and logged in but i think the blame falls compleatly on the student.