Here is the dilemma: tomorrow you have a history test and a 1,000-word English essay due. There is little time - either you bury your nose in history books, or you start your essay. What do you do?
Earlier this month, a French businessman set up a website to solve this problem - get someone to do your homework for you.
The website, Faismesdevoirs.com (domyhomework.com), offered to help students do homework of any kind - from writing an essay to solving a mathematical equation - at a price.
Students could buy homework answers from the website by e-mailing or faxing the questions, and the answers would come back with detailed explanations within a few days.
More than 10,000 students signed up even before the website launched on March 5. But, if students were all for it, parents, teachers and educationalists were outraged.
So were French education authorities, which accused the website of unashamedly commercialising education.
