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Chapter 12: The Card Ending in 4410
The hearing was held on Thursday in the school's glass-walled conference room.
I arrived early, in my navy suit, with the scarf swapped for a short clip that hid the patch.
Cora sat alone on one side of a long table.
She wore her school blazer and no makeup, and her hands were folded on the table so tightly her knuckles were white.
On the other side sat three adults from the school board and the principal.
Gilbert and Delaney came in at the last minute and took chairs against the wall.
Neither of them sat beside her.
I walked past them and pulled out the chair next to my daughter.
She didn't look at me.
"This isn't for you to decide," she muttered.
"I know," I said. "I'm just sitting."
The principal cleared her throat.
"We are here regarding an online group called KeyMasters. Its administrator turned over the logs to the district last week. The logs show that a member using Cora's account bought answers to nine exams and attended at least four of them wearing a wireless earpiece."
Cora's breath caught.
"Four exams," the principal said, "including the practice SAT that determined her class rank."
Gilbert shot to his feet.
"This is ridiculous. My daughter is a straight-A student. Whatever she did, she was led."
"By whom?" a board member asked.
He pointed straight across the table at me.
"Her mother. Look at her. She's been smothering that girl for seventeen years. She's the reason the kid cracked."
"Mr. Farwell, please sit."
"She stopped helping Cora in the middle of exam season! She blocked the counselor! She left a seventeen-year-old to fend for herself!"
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