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Mom Drives a Stolen Van in a Police Chase -- With Her Kids! And More Parenting Scandals

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Mom Drives a Stolen Van in a Police Chase -- With Her Kids! And More Parenting Scandals

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Mom Hacks into School Computer System to Change Her Kids' Grades

Don't like your kid's grades? Hire a tutor. It's far more sensible than hacking into the school district's computer system to alter Junior's record. Could save you some jail time, too. The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., reports Catherine Venusto, who once worked as a secretary for the Northwestern Lehigh School District, used her inside know-how (including the superintendent's password) to change a failing grade for her daughter to a medical exception and switched a 98 percent score of her son's to 99 percent. Wow. That's some perfectionism, there. But it was the mom's own record that really changed, with police adding third-degree felonies to it for three counts of unlawful use of a computer and computer trespassing, according to the newspaper. Venusto told police she thought what she did was unethical, but not illegal, The Morning Call adds. We'll just call it an epic fail.