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A 73-year-old mathematics teacher at Betoota Grove’s exclusive Whooton School For Boys has rejected the school’s offer of a free iPad, telling our reporters that he’s not falling for that one again.
A year ago, Donald Nurse, who’s been teaching at our town’s most expensive boys boarding school for close to three decades, said he received an email telling him he’d been selected at random to receive a free iPad from Apple.
All he had to do was enter his credit card information to pay for the shipping.
“Next thing I know, I’ve got the bank ringing me asking why I’d just taken two grand out of an ATM in Azerbaijan. It clearly wasn’t me and the bank was very good to me about it, they replaced the money and gave me a dressing down about giving out my credit card information and so on,”
“So when the school tried to give me one to help me teach my classes via the internet, I told them no thanks. Not that the school was going to fleece me, it’s just that nothing comes for free in this world. Not even iPads.”
The Advocate reached out to Whooton for comment but was told the school doesn’t comment on private matters.
More to come.
