<p>Brand new posters often have the most farfetched stories.</p>
<p>If HungryJoe wants help, he needs to tell a coherent story. Otherwise we’ll all be guessing and speculating. Of course, that’s what we do best here. :)</p>
<p>I find this very hard to believe. For one thing, the very same teachers who are supposedly conspiring against the OP and the other top students would have to be the teachers that have been giving them good grades.</p>
<p>Agreed; “doth protest too much”.</p>
<p>I don’t understand your reluctance to go to the principal and discuss what you have heard? So what if it is supposed to be “confidential”, that doesn’t make it right. Criminals intending to rob a bank usually make their plans in confidence as well, if you got wind of something like that would you not report it to the police? You are being silly. Set up a meeting with the principal but I hope you have more proof than “well, Jimmy heard Suzy, telling Amy that Billy said…”.</p>
<p>Also, have you actually ASKED for and been denied a recommendation letter?</p>
<p>This all sounds so…high school. Plots, conspiracies, rumor, ‘that teacher hates me,’…</p>
<p>Hungry Joe, you aren’t helping your credibility. If you have the grades, and the test scores validate the grades, then you need to go see the teachers whom you feel have been getting misinformation and ask each one directly if there is a problem with your performance, and that you have been told that you were accused of cheating. Make it clear that you were not. If they have concerns, they can raise them directly with you or deny that there is a problem. If that doesn’t clear the air, you need to get your parents involved, as well as the other students who have been accused, and take it to the principal. Do it now.</p>
<p>The proctors may not be there because of you. They may be there because of a change in school policy overall. Why this policy was instituted is pretty easy to find out: “Hey Ms.Jones, last year our tests were never proctored, but now they always are. What happened?”. I’m betting that someone thought kids were testing each other during the exams and would rather assign proctors than demand that all cell phones be handed over at the beginning of the exam period.</p>
<p>Texting.</p>
<p>Boy do I hate the auto-correct on the I-touch.</p>
<p>My ■■■■■ alarm is going off …</p>
<p>The ■■■■■ potential of this post aside:</p>
<p>@HungryJoe</p>
<p>Grow a pair and go fight for your reputation!</p>
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<p>You have no evidence that -
- Teachers think you are “guilty” of anything
- They have organized en masse to deny you rec letters
- You are being barred from student organizations
- Your classwork is being graded harder than the rest.</p>
<p>Look, if there were reasonable evidence to believe you were cheating, it would be investigated. Teachers aren’t interested in playing these passive-aggressive little games of “I’ll show him” or “I won’t write his rec letter and see how HE feels.”</p>
<p>If this is supposedly all secretive and being done behind the scenes, how does the OP know all this? Agree that it sounds a bit self-inflated. If this is real and is false, go to the administration and get it stopped. There is nothing magical about that.</p>
<p>This a situation when your parents need to get involved. Tell them the situation. THey can meet with your school counselor and also ask for a “round table” meeting of all of your teachers. You need to gather all of your tests, quizzes and papers. You better keep all of your stuff from now on. Then you and your parents can confront this thing head on. Your assigments can be scrutinized for gross unfair grade deflation and the teachers can explain why they do not want to give you a recommendation. Your counselor can work with you and the teachers to repair any breaks. If you feel you need a heavy administrative hand in all of this, include your principal or asst principal in these meetings. Your parents may want to talk to the parents of the other kids so involved too, and make this a group deal which would be more effective.</p>