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From reading the article “Widespread Nature of Chapel Hill’s Academic Fraud is Laid Bare,” I’m not really surprised at what went on. I don’t see stuff like this going on in my high school but I know in some places it does happen, but it’s never brought to attention. In this case as a student there’s not much I would do. From my understanding Ms. Crowder, and Mr. Nyang’oro are the ones that persuaded the students to take those “fake classes.” Do I believe if this were to happen at my school, would I be suspicious? Yes, I probably would. Although I’m not the top athlete that needs to play at all times, I can see myself being in one of those classes just to boost my GPA. When it comes to grades every point counts because my classmates and I are

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