Imagine getting college credit for writing about a beauty-influencer feud.
in May, when students risked having their scores revoked to tell Twitter that they had just written about the then very current event of Westbrook calling out Charles's behavior in a long YouTube video. The general theme of the essay was to be about something "overrated," and apparently, that's what multiple teens deemed either the controversy or Charles himself.
"The James Charles scandal is such a big deal right now and everyone knows so much about it that it just seemed like one of those topics that would be easy to write in detail about. I know so much about it I might as well use it for something lmao,” a student named Maya told Pedestrian .
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