<p>At my school there is no punishment for cheating…the teachers get pressured so much from the administration to have their students get good grades that they just let it go if that means their class’s grades will go up.</p>
<p>dont worry, i bet everyone does too</p>
<p>Uhm first of all chill. Although I do not recommend cheating. Over 80% of adolescents have done it at least once; so why everyone acting perfect; they aren’t. There was judgemental advice and really helpful advice here.
My points:
*Other people have done it before; you should never cheat but your not alone.</p>
<p>*Do NOT tell you teacher; it could make the situation so much worst and affect his opinion of you futhermore, even if he give you a zero. Just accept it and ask if you retake the test in a few days after you’ve studied</p>
<p>*Trust me you’ll feel alot better about a test youve actually good a real deserving grade then one you have cheated on; even if you dont the get you want you know your strengths and potential weakness in that subject so you can improve and when you do get the grade you want or aiming for the pride you have in yourself will feel alot better then the guilt you have now lol</p>
<p>**To sum it all up… what you did was stupid but dont hate yourself for it. Just learn from it and move on. Once its over with leave it as that. Prevent something like that happening again or something 10x worst , dont do it again lol </p>
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<p>I hate that cheating is such a big deal at other schools and students get in so much trouble for it.
I wouldn’t be making a 98 in chemistry if my teacher wasn’t so lenient about how we took our tests in there.</p>
<p>The above post is part of the big problem with the education system.</p>
<p>I like Msdetermined response.
I’ll do exactly that… If he gave me a 0 I’ll just ask him if I can retake it after school or something, & that it’s not fair for assuming I was “cheating”, cause I don’t want him to have bad perspectives of me… I still have 6 months in his class…</p>
<p>It’s not fair for him to assume you cheated, when you did? It is fair for you to cheat on a test and then get a extra time to study as a result, only because you’ve decided to lie? Please, teach me more about this moral system you’re espousing!</p>
<p>At this point, consider yourself extremely lucky if your teacher lets you retake the test.</p>
<p>Jimbosteve you’re so righteous it kinda makes me mad!</p>
<p>Smarty1201, maybe that’s your conscience talking.</p>
<p>Don’t tell the truth, what the heck. Why are people telling you to do that. You already lied about it, just continue to do so. It could only become a bigger problem if you say that you did cheat. It’s not even that big of a deal at this point. Just try not to get caught doing it again.
Tons of people have cheated at least once and haven’t gotten caught. I’d say like at least 95% of high school students have, and about 50% do it on a regular basis. Your teacher was understanding, telling him that you’ve been lying to him might change his mind. I’m not justifying cheating, because it is kinda wrong, but don’t create a problem for yourself when you’ve already sort of gotten yourself out of it.</p>
<p>^^ EXACTLY! Someone understands…</p>
<p>In health class in the 9th grade, I was waiting at the teacher’s desk for him to finish talking with another student. To pass the time, I was reading a test on his desk that was facing out towards me. The answers the test-taker had put in were truly quite stupid! (e.g., “Which of these causes lung cancer? (a) Smoking, (b) Kissing, (c) All of the above” with the answer put down being B!) </p>
<p>It turns out that this test, of which I saw about 2 problems, was the test we’d be taking that period. When my teacher noticed I was reading it, and alerted me to that, I immediately offered to take a zero on the test, and I apologized profusely. At the end of the semester, the zero had put me on the borderline. I was about to get a B in a joke class! Even though I ended up with an 88%, my report card had an A on it. I think I know why.</p>
<p>Accepting responsibility does not always end so happily, but it can, and you should consider that when gambling on ethics. But the choice is yours to make, and I’m done being “righteous.” I don’t have to live with your choices.</p>
<p>@jimbosteve if you’re so right and genuine, then you shouldn’t except the A, you deserved the 88%… why didn’t you tell your teacher that?
See what I mean, sometimes you need to do the “immortals” to get the things you need.
“the end justify the means”</p>
<p>^ oh and adding on to that…
You now have contradicted yourself, jimbosteve.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/991047-standardizing-caret-usage.html?highlight=carrot[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/991047-standardizing-caret-usage.html?highlight=carrot</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1239754-teacher-being-unfair-illegal.html#post13446316[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1239754-teacher-being-unfair-illegal.html#post13446316</a></p>
<p>You seem to have trouble with teachers, Smarty.</p>
<p>^ what’s your point?
& also at @almost there, why is that link relevant?</p>
<p>I’m honestly not liking the OPs attidude. You blatantly cheated. You know it. You should suffer the consequences. To make it worse, you lied that you didn’t cheat. Sure a ton of students cheat, but that doesn’t make it right. No need to get mad at everyone giving you advice.</p>
<p>You can see whatever contradictions you’d like to see. I haven’t asked you to demand your teacher send you to the principal’s office. I haven’t told you that the just thing to do is insist your teacher give you a zero. I insisted on that in my case because I had the sensitivity to know the alternatives: I would have an unfair advantage, however small, over my classmates, or the teacher would have to waste his time rewriting a test, because I had acted like an absent-minded dunce. I made the mistake, and it was my price to pay. </p>
<p>My whole point, that I have repeated again and again, is that honesty is the best policy. You shouldn’t cheat. You shouldn’t lie. You’ve already cheated, so you shouldn’t lie about it. I don’t see why this is so difficult for you. If your teacher decides to give you 100/20 for telling the truth, that’s his decision, and he wasn’t tricked into doing it. I’d be uncomfortable with it, just as I’m uncomfortable when a teacher adds up points wrong-- in any direction. But again, you aren’t me. We have our different ethical systems, but the things that unite all good systems of ethics are a respect for the truth and a respect for the consent of people to act as they will. Purposefully feeding a teacher false information to cover your back after you tried (unsuccessfully) to lie your way to a high grade, and then feeling indignant that your teacher has the temerity to weigh the evidence on his own, rather than giving your the lied-for grade that you “deserve,” violates the consent of the teacher-- you wrest the grade from him against his consent-- and the fundamental principle that truth is valuable in and of itself. </p>
<p>The purpose of my anecdote was to let you know that accepting responsibility is not only good for its own sake, but often leads to the same resolution you would attempt to lie for.</p>