<p>@oxycontin</p>
<p>Ding ding ding!</p>
<p>Addressing the people who says that high school is easy enough and that cheating is not required:
Now I am not saying that cheating is justified or anything, but how the intent for doing so came about is pretty understandable: to be someone they aren’t. </p>
<p>Regardless of how competitive a school is, a simple look at high school statistics will show you that not everyone is a stellar 4.0 student. Albeit, it is evident that not everyone give education the same weight and their GPA reflects that. However, there are still many students who far short of a perfect GPA despite striving for it and that can far under numerous of reasons. A low grade might be due to laziness, illness, difficult teacher, or in an environment where your peers might be complete geniuses. Regardless of these factors, it is common knowledge that the better your academic profile is, the better your chances are at getting admitted. </p>
<p>It doesn’t matter how difficult or how easy high school course work is, if a student knows he is not going to get a perfect mark then he or she will look for a way out. Some students prefer to study, while others prefers to cheat; a matter of preference… But as our moral radar would tell us, a person who has the disposition to prowl through look diligent deserves college admission while a person who cheat doesn’t deserve it. Of course, especially on paper, the ends justify the means. The 4.0 student is the paradigm of a good student. On the other hand, statistics on college acceptance would show you that anything less of a 4.0 wouldn’t take you very far. So in order to become the 4.0 student, the otherwise 3.5 student resorts to other methods in order to get themselves to be part of the 4.0 population; the predominate method being cheating. Thus the cheaters are then now part of the population of what college administration consider as “good students” even though they are really students that the college don’t want.</p>
<p>To put it very simply, cheating is the easy way out. Some people are more hard-working (or talented) than others, so cheating lets less adequate people to generalized as the people they wish they were.</p>
<p>some people take pics and ask for a bathroom break lol</p>
<p>In my high school it’s the top 10% that cheat the most not the “dumb” kids. It is extremely competitive with over 700 students in my grade and most of use trying for top 10% It doesn’t help my school places so much emphasis on it, giving top 10% kids the best guidance counselors(who in my opinion is still an absolute idiot like the rest of them) and giving them preference in parking passes and scheduling. Out of the top 10 students I can honestly say I’ve seen 8 of them cheat, the only two who haven’t are on the verge of getting kicked out of top 10 because they don’t cheat. </p>
<p>The classes are hard enough that it is helpful to cheat and in all honesty some of the teachers/guidance counselors encourage it. I learned my lesson sophomore year when I got caught “cheating” on my guidebook in APUSH (we got the answers to the next sections from the teacher’s edition when she was absent; it was only a homework grade but all of us were swamped with other homework and so we were eager to get one homework out of the way). Even after we were let off with a very light punishment they all still continue to cheat. </p>
<p>One of the biggest methods of cheating practiced by our number 2 is bothering a teacher in and after school until they tell you exactly what’s on the test. Another one is throwing people under the bus. The second period was the class that ratted us out on the APUSH “cheating” when they had started it. We were the only one that got in trouble, and it was all because number 2 was getting a little too close to number 1. </p>
<p>It honestly disgusts me how much people cheat and the fact that genuinely smart people are pushed down the ranks because they actually have morals.</p>
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<p>Nothing like a throat vibration mic + wireless hidden earpiece connected through your phone with bluetooth to your friend …</p>
<p>For the Algebra2/Trig regent someone I know wrote a bunch of notes on a tiny slip of paper, rolled it up, and stuck it in their mechanical pencil. Obviously there was no time to take it out and cheat but lol.</p>
<p>I know allot of kids will cheat on really stupid things like an exit ticket or a drill quiz just because they aren’t confident in their own work. There are kids I that I’ll explain things to and then realise they’ve known it the whole time and just thought I might know something they didn’t.</p>
<p>There are also many people who cheat at my school. My friend is one of them. My friend cheats on essays by switching it with one they wrote the day before. Then when my friend receives an A on it, my friend has the integrity to rub it in people’s faces and my friend is so proud of a grade that isn’t a good depiction of they are capable of.</p>
<p>It is just not right. Cheating will get you no where in life.</p>
<p>Whoever needs to cheat is a loser</p>
<p>The so-called “top” students cheat - it’s been proven again and again in my observations and experiences. However, there are a couple of people with integrity that don’t… Unfortunately, they don’t get the highest scores.</p>
<p>How do you expect students to not cheat when it has clear benefits? Honestly, I think most teachers in my school know, but they look the other way simply because they don’t want to make a big deal out of it :(</p>
<p>The bathroom is the loudest place during exams.</p>
<p>I don’t cheat because it takes more effort (IMO) than just studying and it adds more stress (which I don’t need). Then again, I’m never in real danger of completely bombing anything and I know that if I don’t do so hot on one assignment it’s not the end of the world. </p>
<p>That being said, the amount of cheating that goes on in my school is absolutely ridiculous. Unfortunately, I sometimes facilitate it. For example, our foreign language classes don’t have honors or advanced levels so everybody is thrown in the same classes. One time we had a “project” that consisted of writing like 10-15 extremely basic sentences about our daily routine. There was one of those kids in my class who refuses to even attempt to try and understand anything and I let him “look” at my project (knowing that he was actually going to copy it). Well, he attempted to copy it word-for-word (which was stupid anyway because not all of my sentences were general and it was obvious that he didn’t write them) and made mistakes in the copying! He received an 18/55 and I received a 55/55, but I felt bad for knowingly allowing him to copy my stuff. Unfortunately I’m a softy and he’s in danger of failing. But the point is, some kids are so blatant and obvious in copying that it’s insane! Everyday I see the copying of homework out in the open, making cheat-sheets for tests, etc.</p>
<p>I have never cheated and I’ve always gotten excellent standardized test scores, while my grades have suffered a lot of A minuses. This is one reason why I think GPA is almost meaningless and standardized test scores are far more accurate.</p>