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Technology Becomes Most Popular Homework Excuse

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Credit: Paul Grover / Telegraph.co.uk

Workshy schoolchildren no longer rely on traditional excuses such as "the dog ate my homework," preferring more modern variations including "my computer crashed," according to a U.K. survey.

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