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"The Scholarship Scandal"
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2025-09-05 04:33:01Three days later, Ben discovered the full extent of his parents' academic manipulation while attempting to organize his records for Moonrise Academy enrollment. What started as a simple file review became a horrifying revelation about just how little of his educational success belonged to him.
The evidence was all there in his father's meticulously organized filing system—invoices for "educational consulting services" that were actually bribes to admissions officers, contracts with "academic support specialists" who had taken his standardized tests, receipts for "tutoring programs" that were cover stories for systematic cheating.
Eighteen years of academic fraud, documented and organized with the same careful attention to detail that William brought to every other aspect of his business empire.
Ben sat in his father's home office, surrounded by proof that his entire educational career was a lie. The National Merit Scholarship that had made him feel
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