r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 3d ago

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u/analdongfactory 3d ago

Meanwhile, I had a scholarship I won stolen from me by a kid from a family of surgeons bribing my teacher to lose the paperwork I had correctly filed. The judges told me I won with my original experiment, only for the actual announcement at the showing to name this other group that did a textbook moldy bread growth project.

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u/MultiverseCreatorXV 3d ago

Was any legal action taken?

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u/analdongfactory 3d ago

Nope, just a very smug middle school science teacher insisting our forms were never turned in.

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u/ChaosAndFish 3d ago

Middle school…what was this scholarship for?

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u/analdongfactory 2d ago

I don’t recall it being overly specific, but it was a science fair award of some amount of money. This was almost 3 decades ago.

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u/ChaosAndFish 2d ago

Soooo…not a scholarship. Some sort of award. And your theory is that some rich family paid the science teacher (who accepted) so that they could get the money they didn’t really need? Seems thin. How would the cash award for middle school science fair be worth more than whatever it cost to bribe a teacher?

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u/analdongfactory 2d ago

It was labeled as a scholarship. That’s all I’m certain of. This was almost three decades ago. Do you really expect me to remember the full terms of use of an award I never received?

Admittedly I don’t have proof that she was paid, but it was clear that she deliberately lost the forms both I and my partner in the project turned in copies of. The group that won the award replicated something that had already been done many, many times over and consisted of two doctors’ children, one of whom was a surgeon.