<p>How about this solution...if the son wants to hire someone to edit his HS paper...HE can pay for it :) OK..really, I would tell the student to write his own paper. Actually that is what I told my two kids to do when it was time for college essays. We did have others read and comment on the college essays and offer suggestions for additions, deletions, etc. But the kids actually DID their own writing and also made the choices about which ideas from others would be used. I'm sorry, but I think it's quite over the top to have a writing consultant help a student write a HS paper. Writing is all about conveying one's voice. If someone else does the major part of the work...it is their voice that will be on that paper. I woud say no...and I wouldn't feel a tad bit guilty.</p>