Skipping class

I have a hard time believing this story but its AP and they’re never wrong, right? Students paid $1 a day to skip gym. Six students supposedly paid $230. To skip gym? What’s wrong with them. If they were paying to skip math that would be more believable. The story says the teacher may have collected thousands of dollars, but the scheme was only from September to December. Lets see… a typical school year runs 180 days (this is America, right?) half that gets me say 90 days. One student, one semester = $90. Just over 11 students would net a thousand dollars. So for two thousand dollars (the story did use the plural) one would see 22 students running around loose. But if there were six periods that would only be 3 to 4 students blending in with the legitimate hall pass crowd each period. O.K. maybe it wouldn’t have been noticible.