When I asked the question about school record, I was not joking - I have asked a serious question, which has a ground for it. The problem is that my son at the end of 9th grade hacked his school computer network, sending all his classmates the message, something like "Congrats! Another stupid school year is over!" on the screens on the PCs. The message get to the school principal's computer as well, and there was a big scandal. My son was a straight "A" student, but as a punishment he was suspended from school for a few days, which were the days of finals. As a result, he got "B"s instead of "A"s in subject he had missed the finals. This is not a problem, but the record appeared in his school dossier about hacking. Besides, there were a few other records, for example, "Bad behavior on the bus: taught 5th graders that there is no Heaven and no Hell"... and had a few detentions at school, basically, Saturday school, for running during the breaks, etc. Since the application N-400 contains info about his high school (name, address, etc.), I thought they might check his dossier from high school. Luckily, police was not involved in this hacking case, because it was a joke which did not result in any harm, but it was very stressful, and as far as I know hacking in many cases could be considered as a crime. For the criterion of "good moral character", should he confess to the IO about this episode? Could IO somehow get info about what happened in 9th grade?
