SuitabookPeer pressure and personal choice
Karl is invited to aid a high-tech cheating ring but refuses, while school pressure forms the wider setting.
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Michael Laser - Author
This is a school-based ethical conflict with comic narration: Karl resists organised cheating while severe institutional discipline escalates the stakes. Expect attention to peer pressure, authority and competing ideas of fairness rather than a straightforward rule-following lesson.
Karl Petrofsky has spent his years in school trying to hide the As on his papers. He sees himself more as a shy maverick than a geek. When the smoothest guy in high school asks him to aid and abet a ring of hightech cheaters, Karl flatly refuses. But then the tyrannical assistant principal makes an example of a hapless student—and threatens anyone caught cheating with expulsion and an indelible stain on their permanent records. This means war!With a droll narrator and a delightfully intricate plot, this satire of school pressures and modern-day ethics will provide welcome laughs between exams.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a school-based ethical conflict with comic narration: Karl resists organised cheating while severe institutional discipline escalates the stakes. Expect attention to peer pressure, authority and competing ideas of fairness rather than a straightforward rule-following lesson.
Karl is invited to aid a high-tech cheating ring but refuses, while school pressure forms the wider setting.
An assistant principal makes an example of a student and threatens expulsion plus a lasting record for anyone caught cheating.
The book is described as a satire with a droll narrator and an intricate plot about school pressures and modern-day ethics.
The book includes cheating, threats of expulsion, permanent-record consequences and an assistant principal making an example of another student.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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