<p>“Now she is at an Ivy and . . . . her mother does her homework. She just extended the cheating to college.”</p>
<p>That says it right there about cheaters</p>
<p>I cheated once in Grade 5. I didn’t do my homework, but I was scared of getting in trouble, so I copied off my friend. I felt so bad afterwards, that I made a promise to myself that I would never cheat again.</p>
<p>My school has a pretty strict cheating/plagiarism policy: Automatic 0, and you get sent the vice principal, who contacts parents, puts it on your permanent record, etc. Still A LOT of people cheat. I know during one of my tests (which involved using a computer), one student sent out answers to everyone through Facebook.</p>
<p>A lot of teachers are intensely stupid about their assignments, though. They just print out stuff they got from Google and assign it to us, and kids can find the answer key just as easily as they did.</p>
<p>Just about everyone at my school cheats… And how the teachers decide to punish who they catch is really up to them, it depends on the teacher…</p>
<p>Like most rules. My school isn’t really a bad school but nearly everyone break at least three rules: no electronic device, no cheating, and wear ID </p>
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<p>There are a lot of people at my school who cheat. I know several people on the so called “Honor Council” of NHS who cheat. I don’t think anyone has ever snitched on someone else. The administration has a zero tolerance cheating policy, but I’ve never seen anyone get caught in the act.</p>
<p>Ugh this thread again.</p>
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<p>None of the high achievers at my school cheat. It just straight up does not happen. I have seen some below average students cheat before, but I know that if they keep that up they’ll go nowhere in life. Plus if you get caught you get a zero on the exam. We’re more of the kind of people who ask “guided questions” to the teacher during the test about the material lol. But we’re a surprisingly cheat-free group…at least the top 40 are.</p>
<p>“I know that if they keep that up they’ll go nowhere in life”</p>
<p>The unfortunate thing is that that isn’t true.</p>
<p>@Para:
politics is a cheating business.
Businesses also cheat.
Wall street cheats the system.</p>
<p>And I’m sure someone in your top 40 cheated in some ways, shapes or forms.</p>
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<p>It really depends on what youd consider cheating.</p>
<p>Im fairly diligent about everything and try not to copy off people. However, Id like to note that our teachers at my school (and Im primarily in honors classes) assign a lot of busy work and, as a result, prefer to do the majority of the work ourselves and copy off whatever were too lazy to do. I think this stems from the fact that our class has a high percentage of Asians and the stereotypical genius trait that applies to most of us; thus we often just prefer studying and reading in order to learn more instead of just doing the countless worksheets and questions assigned to us. Projects, essays and tests, however, are another thing. None of us would ever be willing to cheat; it wouldnt sit with us too well and wed quite frankly be rather miffed with ourselves if we even ever got close to considering cheating on a test.</p>
<p>Fail and learn, as one of my friends mottos goes. Basically, keep your morals and fail because its your fault for being unprepared in the first place and dont do it next time.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather. The kind of people who cheat at my school are scraping by to get Cs and Ds and cheat so they don’t fail.</p>
<p>Lol really? At my school it’s actually often those at the top who cheat (not all of them of course, but a few), although many who aren’t doing as well cheat as well.</p>
<p>Well it’s not like it’s going to be obvious </p>
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<p>People who look down on reporting cheating as “snitching” misunderstand the concept of snitching.</p>
<p>It arose when some cop somewhere came up with the idea of offering reduced sentences and other compromises to criminal conspirators in exchange for inside information. A conspirator who accepts such a deal is:</p>
<ul>
<li>a traitor, for breaking an agreement made in confidence.</li>
<li>a coward, for committing treachery (defined as “violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence”) in order to escape a consequence.</li>
<li>a hypocrite, for facilitating the punishment of a crime that he would have committed just as remorselessly.</li>
</ul>
<p>This does not apply if the informant was not involved in the crime or if the informant was betrayed (e.g. attacked) by conspirators and is now seeking recourse via law enforcement.</p>
<p>Criminals, and then anyone who didn’t trust their police, eventually corrupted this concept and accused all police informants of “snitching”. This worsened the divide between urban communities and the general population, lowered trust in law enforcement even further, and justified such practices as intimidation in court, and ostracism from society, of witnesses.</p>
<p>Keep that in mind when you think about what it means to report cheating. Someone’s academic practices might be none of your business, and reporting cheating might be a petty move, but that doesn’t make it comparable to selfish betrayal of allies.</p>
<p>The original use of the word “snitch” has nothing to do with the ethics of reporting cheating. The cheater is committing a victimless crime and the snitch reports him out of spite and jealousy. It upsets the snitch that the cheater is able to get the same results from school as he is without the work, and the snitch gets back at the cheater with no personal gain. You’ve got to understand that people doing well in school, even by cheating, doesn’t hurt you. Mind your own business.</p>
<p>For everyone who reports cheating out of jealousy, there is someone who would have reported cheating for a reason other than jealousy, but remained silent because of omert</p>
<p>@OrchidBloom for reals. Our school doesn’t really have a competitive atmosphere, so people don’t feel the need to cheat</p>
<p>I don’t really know how to cheat well, so I don’t. I don’t really get cheat sheets. If you’re writing down the information you need to know, why not just take the extra 10 minutes and study it, eliminating the risk of getting caught?</p>
<p>Actually, there was one time where I cheated somewhat significantly. Although again, I can’t take credit for being innovative, because 3/4 of the class was already doing it before I found out about it. We were reading a book in Spanish class and the English translation was online. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I have reluctantly assisted in cheating in certain classes where we take tests online in the computer lab. For an entire semester a kid in the class sat next to me and asked me for answers and looked off my screen. I always rolled with it because I didn’t want to be rude, but I was a little upset about it when he did it for every single test, including the final.</p>
<p>Teachers are just as lazy as the students</p>
<p>my physics teacher gets all his test questions from the same university web site</p>
<p>anyone in the room with a smartphone just googles it and gets a free 100%</p>
<p>joke AP class.</p>