<p>What is a scantron?</p>
<p>Another poster requested that you write more coherently. People here may be sympathetic- this almost sounds like bullying. You need an advocate of some sort, even a lawyer, perhaps.</p>
<p>However, and I will be blunt, if you don’t write more coherently, it is hard to believe you are #1 in your class and I am even suspicious of the post as being fake.</p>
<p>I have no record of cheating. I honestly think this incident can’t go far because I’ve been a good student & my teachers recognize that.</p>
<p>You need to be aware of 2 different things: cheating without being caught (no record) vs cheating and getting caught (having record).</p>
<p>You already admitted that you let other students copy your answers. That is considered cheating. Your post #19 gives people the impression that you copied answers in the past. Do you know that the accusers or other students cheated? I am trying to determine how much your school tolerates cheating.</p>
<p>You need your own parents, not College Confidential parents, to help you with this. Have them call the school principal and find out the status of the investigation. There’s no point in panicking when you don’t even know where things stand. As for a “rumor” about your class rank–why would you believe it? Fellow students have no clue what the administration does.</p>
<p>@compmon, a scantron is a computer-readable answer sheet–easily Googlable.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m aware that it is still considered cheating, but I can’t control people from glancing over my tests. And it’s not like I allowed it. </p>
<p>the weird thing is this year’s admin was my teacher last year for a short period of time. And then he got promoted. He was familiar with my hard work and value in academics. He liked me as a student… And people cheated in his APUSH class all the time but instead of giving them a 0, he lets them retake it. But now that he’s an admin and he probably asked suggestions from the principal, I don’t know what he’ll do…</p>
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<p>Be aware that if this had happened at colleges/universities with strict academic honor codes like UVA or Oberlin, your failure to report the classmates attempting to cheat off of you does constitute a violation under those honor codes.</p>
<p>Just a hunch but I think the OP may be an English language learner. English second language?</p>
<p>No, English isn’t my second language. I’m on my phone so I didn’t know I need to use complete sentences and stuff…</p>
<p>OP, if what you say about the situation is true, your administration will realize there is no evidence and let it go.</p>
<p>Since you only heard about your class rank from other students, they are probably making it up. Rumors spread quickly and sound like truth because the idiots who hear them believe them.</p>
<p>If your worst fears come true, get your guardians involved. If that doesn’t work, get a lawyer involved. One call from a lawyer can make a lot of falsehoods or wrong decisions disappear. Eyewitness testimony from a bunch kids, without physical evidence to support it, won’t carry a lot of weight once a lawyer gets involved. Lawyers make principals cry for their mommies.</p>
<p>If I can decipher what you are saying, these students are claiming that you had in your possession a scantron form that was already filled out with the correct answers. How could this be true? Did other students take the test before your class, and could you have obtained the information from them? Are they saying that you somehow stole the test questions AND the form ahead of time and filled it out?</p>
<p>The whole thing is incomprehensible, and frankly, the more you write about “how could they take this step, I’ve never been caught cheating before” the guiltier you sound. If you want advice from us, I suggest that you take a deep breath and explain in a straightforward manner exactly HOW they claim you cheated. “He did well so he must have cheated” is not an accusation that would be taken seriously.</p>
<p>BTW, was this test multiple choice? Not very impressive, if that is the norm at your school.</p>
<p>There are people here who seem to automatically assume that cheating accusations are true. I am not one of them. But you are not going to be a decent advocate for yourself if you can’t string together a coherent argument and explanation.</p>
<p>The student and her friends claimed that I got someone else’s scantron. However, if the accusers claimed that I cheated, why didn’t they report it right there and then to the substitute. The substitute could’ve made a note telling the teacher “so and so” cheated. This would have been more evident that I cheated. I think having a substitute being there was just a good excuse for them to accuse me. Why did they email the teacher instead? The teacher wasn’t even there so he can’t do anything. This is so stupid.</p>
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<p>This is still considered cheating. If should attend a school with an honor code, you would be obligated to report the behavior. If unreported, you could face the same consequences as the person who copied off of your paper</p>
<p>Attend a school with an honor code?</p>
<p>[Honor</a> code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_code]Honor”>Code of honor - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>“On my honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment/exam.”</p>
<p>Does every school have an Honor Code? My school as a “Code of Conduct” consequences of cheating though</p>
<p>If these students have “accused me of cheating all of my high school year”, then what is different now? And if they have repeatedly accused you and each previous investigation has found you innocent, hasn’t there been some discussion of harassment by these students?</p>
<p>No, the accusers brought up the past & stated that I cheated all of my high school years. I haven’t had a record of cheating. And teachers know my hard work and integrity. </p>
<p>What do you guys think the administration will do? Like if you were the admin, what would you do…</p>
<p>Your reluctance to tell your parents makes you look guilty. It’s called “Guilty Knowledge.” The behavior of a guilty person.</p>
<p>Are you being accused of copying from another student’s paper during the test, or are you being accused of accessing test answers in another way (eg, looking at book, notes, a scantron from a previous test administration).</p>
<p>You said the principal already questioned you. I imagine the principal will question the accusing students, and all students who were seated near you in the exam or otherwise might have some knowledge of this incident. And obviously the substitute teacher and the regular one (who wasn’t present, but still might have something relevant to say). I also imagine your scantron will be compared with the scantrons of the students who sat next to you, and also the one you allegedly “got” although I can’t quite make out what that was supposed to be from your description, or how the other students knew that you “got” this scantron–did they see it, did they hear you talking about it, is this an identifiable scantron that went missing? Then, I imagine the principal will call a meeting with you and your parents to discuss the findings. </p>
<p>I have to agree with Osprey. You haven’t said a word about your parents. That, and the way you have written about this whole thing here, do not give the impression of innocence.</p>