As Hell's Kitchen's only reporter, Eddie Brock had been granted special access to the school. He shouldered a video camera and recorded the every move of several stern-faced Department of Education officials.
They hadn't come with good intentions, so Alvin naturally couldn't let them do as they pleased. At a moment that could affect a child's entire life, he absolutely wouldn't allow outside factors to have a negative influence.
With an average ACT score of 36, Alvin had decided that if even one student complained they'd been affected, he'd break those bastards' legs after it was all over.
When the clock reached one o'clock, the four-hour exam finally came to an end.
Eddie Brock had Venom steady the camera on his shoulder while he held a microphone up to a Department of Education official leaving the exam room. "Hello. As a journalism student who's been through both the ACT and SAT, I'd like to ask: are exams in the United States always this, well, how should I put it, 'serious'?
Are other schools in New York State going through the same thing?
Is this hands-on supervision of students about to graduate the new exam model for the United States?"
The young official, perhaps frustrated at having found nothing, answered Eddie Brock's question impatiently. "This is our duty. Ensuring the authenticity and validity of exam results is the Department of Education's latest priority."
Eddie Brock smiled and picked up the thread. "So you're saying the United States' exam system wasn't foolproof in the past, and that's why you need to come up with a new testing method?
That's a wonderful thing. You'll be pioneers in stamping out academic fraud in the United States. I have some information about admissions fraud at Harvard University. I'll give it to you later, then publish