When I was a kid, finding textbook answers was the key to easy homework assignments. I was a pretty smart kid, and I felt like I deserved not to have to do the homework. In retrospect, this is humorous, but at the time I would do anything to get out of work. I would go up to the teacher's desk when she wasn't in the room and look at the geometry textbook answers. I would spend all of my lunch money on textbook solutions from the kid who worked as the teacher's aide. I was a little bit afraid of math, to tell the truth, and I didn't want to spend too much time doing it. Every textbook answer that I could get was one less problem that I had to do.
In fact, I was so obsessed with textbook answers that I even tried to buy a teachers edition textbook one time. It is kind of a funny story. One of my friends had the uncanny ability to come up with every answer textbooks required in every class. At first, I thought he was just a whiz kid, but he certainly didn't look like a whiz kid. You see, whenever we hung out, he came across as a complete moron. I could not believe that this kid would know the textbook answers unless he had some sort of inside source. It turned out that his mom was a high school teacher at another high school. Because they were in the same district, they used most of the same textbooks. He could get any textbook answer he wanted practically, because she taught both English and mathematics.
Of course, what I didn't realize then was that a textbook solution was only worth so much. By looking up textbook answers, I was actually cheating myself. The problem was that I didn't have adequate homework help. If there had been some sort of service that I could go to to ask questions, it would have made things easier. As it was, however, there was no after school tutoring in the district I was in. My parents could give me the textbook answers usually, but they did not have the time to actually help me with homework. I was sort of on my own, and as a result I resorted to cheating whenever I could. I didn't cheat on tests, but if I had not had the textbook answers, I would not have done quite so well on homework.
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