He took a breath and looked at the book. Instead of reciting the textbook, he thought about the bakery down the street that had raised its prices for cinnamon rolls. "Well," he stammered, "if the rolls are too expensive, we go to the supermarket instead. So the bakery has to lower the price or make them better to get us back."
But GDZ is a slippery slope. First, he copied the definition of a "referendum." Then, he "borrowed" a complex paragraph about the market economy. By 10:00 PM, his notebook was filled with perfect, adult-sounding sentences. He felt like a genius. He took a breath and looked at the book
Anton realized then that the textbook wasn't his enemy, and the GDZ wasn't his savior. They were just tools. He still used the GDZ occasionally—mostly to check if his math on economic problems was right—but he never let it tell his stories for him again. So the bakery has to lower the price
"Anton," she said, tapping her pen against the textbook. "Your homework was... sophisticated. Tell the class, in your own words, how the 'invisible hand' of the market affects our local bakery." He felt like a genius
"I'll just look at one answer to get the engine running," he promised himself.
In the quiet town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, there lived a student named Anton who had a recurring nightmare: the "Society and You" chapter in the 8th-grade textbook.