Straight A’s, Crooked Ways

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Apr 112005
 

The April 11th issue of Newsweek that I got around to read­ing today has this shocker: A guest col­umn by an aspir­ing singer, Nicole Kristal, who started tutor­ing rich kids to make ends meet. She finds out that “tutor­ing” in this case meant doing all their work: writ­ing essays and term papers while the kids whiled away their time watch­ing TV, doing drugs or hav­ing sex. Being rich, the young men and women tutored by Kristal had high stan­dards — she got fired by a tutoree for a term paper that scored a mere B-.

For three years, I was an aca­d­e­mic pros­ti­tute. I ruined the curve for the hon­est and ensured that the wealth­i­est, and often stu­pid­est, stu­dents earned the high­est marks. I was a pro­fes­sional paper-writer.

Finally Kristal real­ized that she was doing some­thing dis­hon­est, and quit. After three years.

Link: ‘Tutor­ing’ Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams

Per­haps, Laura should’ve con­sid­ered get­ting a tutor.

PS: Cheats suck.

 Posted by Karthik at 1:00 am

  One Response to “Straight A’s, Crooked Ways”

  1. Manoj says:
    Apr, 11 2005 at 12:25 pm

    PS: Cheats suck.

    Couldn’t agree more.

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