hello @newbreed. It's good to see you supporting other writers in the community with meaningful comments :-)

A few points to help guide you in the writing of your next piece.

In this submission, you spend approximately 1/3 of your word count on a character that disappears from the story without having any real impact to it. This leaves you with not much word count to develop your story.
Professor Gabriel fired the old principal and hired the new one but there needed to be some sort of real connection to the story line such as did the Professor know the new principal was also corrupt? Was the first principal simply a fall guy for the school's poor ethical practices? Bringing this link full circle to join the dots would have made for a much better arc if he was complicit in the ethical failures of the school.

You also go into detail about Professor Gabriel's description and the description of the woman who steps up to whisper to him, but these do not add anything to further the plot, and we do not have a clear idea who the woman is or what she was whispering about.

When we progress to the examination hall you constantly switch between male and female when referencing the examining officer. A simple proofread and edit should have picked this up. We suggest that you commit time to the full writing process to ensure that you are submitting quality to the community.

Finally, it seems unrealistic that an examining officer would ever leave the examination hall while an exam was in progress.

Your story had promise but you need to be careful not to risk losing your reader. If you spend some time honing your craft and taking the aforementioned into account, you should see an elevation in your stories and in the level of curation. Your love for writing is evident from this piece. The piece just needs some tweaking :-)