Hello, I got caught cheating in a middle school test please help
So a week ago I took a Latin test, it was to do with translating a story out of the cambridge Latin course and figuring out verbs and vocabulary. In the test if some students finished early they had to do some vocab studies with the text book. Now a lot of people in my class cheat on tests but no one usually cares and I’m a good student so I don’t cheat but I occasionally give someone an answer I can guarantee is right. So on the test there was a word in Latin that I knew and had written down but I just had to check so I asked my friend who had finished and was looking throUgh the textbook and asked him what the word was and I was correct, my other friend who was next to me heard this but didn’t really care as he cheated a lot. When the test time was over and we were all heading out to recess me and two other friends of mine were talking about two girls that cheated on the test and one of them wanted to snitch on them, I didn’t want to snitch on them but was peer pressured into going with them to snitch on the two girls. After we told the teacher and left her office I felt alright but when the girls found out and knew that I was one of the guys that told on them I felt bad as my friend who was sitting next to me during the test, the one who heard me asking for the meaning to a word, had told the girls that I cheated(without knowing we had snitched). I have talked to the girls since and told them I am sorry but when the teacher talks to them I’m sure they will say I cheated even if they know how sorry I am. Please if there is anyone reading this please help. If my parents find out they will be saddened by what I’ve done and after doing something extremely bad in the first term of school I don’t think they’ll be able to take it. I know I’m only in middle school but I literally can’t fall asleep cause I keep thinking about it, I literally made a cc account at 3 am to ask for advice about this. Pleas help, and comments or input would be greatly appreciated.
So you cheated on a test and then you snitched on other people for cheating? Now you are scared that they will tell on you for cheating? Oh, the irony.
You don’t even feel bad for tell on them. You only feel bad since they know you cheated as well, and they probably will tell on you. Seems like you deserve it.
No I do feel bad for snitching, I was peer pressured into doing it and I regret it a lot, that’s why I had a conversation with the two girls and told them that I was sorry. They said it was fine since they didn’t care a lot about Latin and we’re gonna drop it soon but I couldn’t shake the feeling that they were gonna say I cheated
Tell you parents now what you have done now. It is better for them to hear it from you first. Maybe you need to be in a different environment. All this cheating ,others not caring, more cheating, hypocritical tattling, it’s too much. You are learning the wrong things.
I need help on how to tell them, I’m not good at saying these things I feel really nervous about telling them because to me it’s bad either way, i can tell them now or wait and see if the girls tell on me I don’t know what to do and I’m to nervous to do something even if I know the best thing to do
Sounds like a lot of drama for a Latin class. I also wonder if you would benefit from moving away from this group. Perhaps you could start your discussion with your parents asking them to explain the story about how people living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
You’ll feel better if you own up to it and take the consequences. Just be honest with your teacher/parents and explain what happened. And hopefully you learned not to do the same in the future.
I think that you need to tell your parents and deal with the consequences.
What sort of school do you go to? It sounds to me as if this might not be the best environment.
The consequences of being caught cheating in middle school are probably going to be a lot less severe than the consequences would be in high school or university. As such, it is a very valuable lesson for you to learn now. First don’t cheat. Second, don’t give in to peer pressure. Apparently reasonable and good people can have bad ideas, and you have to learn to resist the temptation to go along with it. If your gut is telling you that something is wrong, then something is probably wrong.
Cheating on one test is not going to destroy your future.
But your repeated insistence that you did nothing wrong, that “I’m a good student so I don’t cheat but I occasionally give someone an answer I can guarantee is right” and that this is about “peer pressure” raise some flags.
You cheated. Now tell your parents before school can, own up to it, and get past it.