<p>I would rather take a well-deserved B than an A I cheated on any day…Cheating is wrong at any level and any test. People who cheat either are too not confident and childish to accept that what they prepared and studied for and deserved is not enough for their “high” standards. It doesn’t matter who else does it and it doesn’t matter if they get a better grade than you. You’ll better off in the long run. Everyone’s like “teachers never notice” and my teachers wouldn’t even look at everyone because they trusted us or they would just tell everyone “cover you’re papers.” They don’t want to get people in trouble. Cheaters never win…There was this kid who copied everything from homework to tests and was only recommended for 1 honors class and he overrode 3 of them when he didn’t get recommended…Cheating is never the answer.</p>
<p>At my school cheating was common, it actually became something of a game. Our teachers were pretty strict about it and you did NOT want to get caught. That being said there were some unspoken rules. You NEVER cheated off of someone’s paper if they didn’t want you to, if you noticed someone cheating and you didn’t like it then you didn’t tell the teacher, you could mention it to them later and they would have the decency not to do it near you. If some one is truly trying their best, then you helped them out, but you didn’t let someone coast through if you didn’t think they could handle the material. (we all have bad days) There were a few more, but basically there was something of a honor code to cheating. Anyone who cheated on a mid-term or final was free to be reported on, that was a line that few crossed and most regretted. Another was you NEVER stole answers from a teacher, looked at papers early etc. It was basically a system of collaboration in which students helped each other, usually cheating would get you at most one or two more right answers because everyone was collaborating and everyone was smart already. You didn’t copy someone’s test, rather you asked if you didn’t understand, and they would help you out with that question.
The consequences for breaking ‘the code’ were pretty bad as well. In my senior year the Juniors had the idiotic and stupid idea to steal a test from a teacher when he was absent. They then preceded to share it among themselves. They also got caught with cell-phones out during tests. Due to these things a slew of policies came out that will effect future students. The result of this is that offenders were ostracized, and cut off from resources such as help from seniors, old papers, etc. So basically you followed the code, and it was ok. </p>
<p>A note on cheating, I and a few of my friends came into high-school having never cheated. In fact we thought it was a horrible thing to do, and were quite against it. However by junior year we realized that the cheaters were on top, and those who were honest were always behind. This lead to the ‘perfection’ of the system in some senses. By senior year 99.3% of our class had cheated, and that was the norm. At the end of freshman year I think only 20-30% had cheated. In most cases at our school by senior year cheating has become an art, with the most creative ways of passing information, and learning becoming apparent. (‘dropped’ papers, to sign language, coughs, plants, fly-bys, distractions, milking the teacher for answers, etc.) As I said at the beginning, it became a way to ease the monotony of school and rather than helping increase our grades those of us who were smart had little net benefit, while those who were less academically inclined where taught what they didn’t know after the test to make sure they kept up.</p>
<p>Disclaimer:
In case it wasn’t clear, I only cheated a few times(4), but I enjoyed giving suggestions to improve the process, as a caught cheater hurt all, including the innocent. In fact the best method was made by a friend who had never cheated. Also, our school is different from many others, they don’t usually have a system/tradition in place, but cheating still occurs. I’m not sure how college will be, but the punishments are more severe for those who plan on continuing there immoral(but entertaining) ways.</p>
<p>TL;DR: People cheat, it’s common, it’s a replication of real life. U mad, too bad, so sad.</p>
<p>I’ve let friends copy hw and I’ve done it but only in emergencys. Now tests I am scared about, sometimes I plan to cheat but while I’m writing the info down I memorize it and then there is no need (plus I’m too scared anyways :P). I have helped out a friend or two cheat on tests but only if its totaly necesary. What really ****es me off is when people I don’t really know try to cheat off of me.</p>
<p>This has happened twice already, in Algebra 2(9th grade) and this past year in Precalc (10th grade). These older kids, who me and my friend never even talk to, try to sit next to us during the Final Exam. They even plan it right infront of me, do they think I’m stupid??? So I just usually only mark the bubble of the answer and don’t really bubble it in till the end :)</p>
<p>And here I was thinking someone cheated on their girlfriend.</p>
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In order for that to happen, someone on here would have to have a girlfriend first…</p>
<p>At my school it is actually the intelligent kids who do most of the cheating. Not on tests or anything like that, just homework. My school seems to give a lot of homework (honors/ap math classes typically give like 60 problems a night and the assignments are worth only like 5 points), so the smart kids create groups where everyone does like 10 problems then we all copy each other in study hall.</p>
<p>Kids at my school used to cheat all of the time. The best story I remember is when the “smart” kid kept cheating in one of our AP classes off of the actual smart kid. Another student e-mailed the teacher to let her know and the teacher didn’t really do anything.</p>
<p>They threaten that it is an automatic fail on the test or course but I have never seen it happen even though so many high schoolers (and college kids too since the lecture hall seats are so close) have no problem cheating.</p>
<p>Very uncommon at my high school though there was one remarkable instance where there was a large project where almost everyone shared their research and just copy-pasted. The next time we did something similar it had to all be handwritten. That was fun.</p>
<p>People cheat ALL the time at my school. Every single morning you can find all the AP kids in the den copying homework off of each other. They literally sit in a ring and pass around homework. Also I had AP English class last period so everyone would get the answers for quizzes. But there was never any cheating on tests, just copying busywork and homework and quizzes.</p>
<p>At my school, cheating isn’t that common because most of the teachers older and can pick up on it. However, my friend is the absolute worst cheater. She cheated on every single spanish assignment for the entire semester by using her phone to google translate and our teacher, it was her first year ever teaching, didn’t notice. She still managed to get worse grades then most of the class, though.</p>
<p>Cheating off home work in middle school was so common but in high school there all the answers online so it i pointless unless its 5 minutes before class. In my high school, most cheating occurs by students, copying, taking photos, or just memorizing the questions and sometimes answers to give/exchange in the hall.</p>
<p>people cheat because they’re too simple-minded</p>
<p>At my school, people cheat in language classes all the time. In my Spanish class, people stick their vocab sheet in the front clear pocket of their binder and use it during the test. Cheating does hurt you, but its sad that there is so much pressure to do perfectly that even really smart kids will cheat for the few extra points.</p>
<p>At my school, most of the cheating is occasionally asking your friend for an answer or two during a quiz. Of course it’s still wrong but most people don’t do it that often so it’s kinda looked over. This one girl that is almost every one of my classes used to blatantly cheat on almost every quiz/test in every class & then she would brag to the class about what good grades she made. Several students turned her in for cheating just because she was so obnoxious but she never really got in trouble, she just got moved to a new seat. Other than that I’m not aware of any like huge cheating scandals going on at my school but who knows.</p>
<p>At my school, there are lazy kids who copy the homework in the period before and have to cheat to memorize things on little quizzes. I mean lazy kids in AP classes; people think AP kids are somehow removed, but there’s this pressure at my school to get more kids involved in AP, then they take the class and can’t really handle it with the amount of work they’re willing to put in. There’s one kid who’s like the class joke because he cheats on every single exam and assignment we’re given. Most teachers know and give him a special seat for big exams, but that’s it. It’s probably because he gets terrible grades anyway.</p>
<p>If you’re talking about kids collaborating on homework, we do that, but at my school you’re supposed to. In higher classes you don’t HAVE to do the homework, which I think is how it should be…</p>