Marks Again!

R was in the mood for revelations this morning:  having previously received a false mark on Pronote, the Mark Obsessed Website, 3 out of 20 instead of 13, he now finds the error can be in his favour.  He is the proud owner of a 20 out of 20 intsead of a 12.  This is because he is sometimes given the marks of another boy in his class who shares his name.  Happily for R, this boy is an 'intello', a particularly obedient and diligent child who dedicates his life to getting good marks, so R can only come out on top.

I previously reported that someone at school had hacked into Pronote The Online Mark Administrator and upgraded all his marks, and this morning more revelations emerged on this subject too;

"He got expelled from the school"

"But I thought he only got a warning"

"No, because in fact he was helping lots of people to get good marks"

"A philanthropist, hardly a sacking offence..."

"No, he was charging 10 Euros an upgrade.  He got caught because he usually had an avarage of 8 out of 20 and he changed it to 18 out of 20.  And then one day a teacher noticed one of her marks should be 15 and was 20, she thought it was a mistake and put it back to 15, and then seconds later it went back up to 20, so they knew there was a hacker"

"Hang on a minute, how do you know all this?"

"One of the assistant teachers likes to tell stories" he says smiling, "It's a pity that boy got caught, otherwise by 18 he could have been a rich man".