On Christmas Eve, My Parents Chose Their Golden Child—and Took My Education Away

“I got your number from Georgetown’s research office. I wanted to personally thank you for your courage in exposing your brother’s fraud.”

I stepped away from my experiments. “Dr. Fernandez, you don’t need to thank me. I just reported academic dishonesty to appropriate authorities.”

“You did much more than that,” she replied firmly. “Your evidence helped continue reading …