<p>Cheating runs rampant throughout all of my classes, in all forms. Copying off one another on tests, crib sheets, copying homework, everything - and it can become really difficult for me to be an honest student, and study for two hours for a Trigonometry test and to end up with a 95 and have a girl three rows behind me get the same grade when she doesn't even understand the material just because she just blatantly cheated. </p>
<p>My AP World History teacher caught a cheating ring that was going on in one of his classes, and ended up reporting all of them and booting a few out of NHS.</p>
<p>^ There<code>s a lot of people like that who cheat…and half the time the teacher doesn</code>t know…and I feel like a snitch if I were to tell…so I stay mum while some real idiots get 90<code>s. But the teacher</code>s always say it<code>ll be a 0 and a disciplinary referral if caught, but I</code>ve never really seen anyone get caught, just heard about it, except one time when this kid was taking a vocab quiz, had the answers on the ground face up, and it was kind of obvious since he started staring at the ground often. The teacher took his paper up, threw it in the trash, and he just shrugged…</p>
<p>I always have the satisfaction of knowing I got a good grade, and got it fairly.</p>
<p>Oh I don’t think it’s a problem really.
Like so what? If other people cheat get As so what? It probably doesn’t really effect the class curb and I mean college eventually happens and cheating becomes harder
And then… Real life and you’re on your own. Plus most people only cheat a little which is kind of ok if you asked me I had a teacher last year who left the room during tests and read books… I don’t know a single kid who didn’t ask their neighbor for some help at some point.
There are all sorts of ways of getting through high school some a little less moral then others.</p>
<p>Cheating, at least in my opinion, isn’t really just “no big deal.” It does everyone in the class a disservice, including the person who cheats, who they cheat off of, the teacher, the kids in the class who don’t cheat, and just the overall learning environment. Kids who regularly cheat or are indifferent about cheating when they do it seem to have very poor moral compasses which is a major character flaw if you ask me.</p>
<p>^ I have to agree…they aren<code>t doing themselves a favor because that won</code>t help them after high school and/or college and beyond, and it<code>s really not fair to the kids who work hard. A</code>s are meant for those who deserve them. When I get a bad grade, it<code>s because I deserve it. I</code>m proud to say I`ve never cheated, and never will. My .02 anyways.</p>
<p>I can’t say I’ve never cheated and I can’t say I won’t in the future. I do work hard and almost always study but sometimes it just happens. I don’t usually but it has happened sometimes. And when I cheat, I mean peeking at the person next to me’s answers or asking people who have already taken the test examples of ?'s. I have NEVER used a cellphone or other device during a test and I haven’t knowingly plagiarized either.</p>
<p>I know I’ve cheated many times, and I agree with Bookworm, everyone has cheated at least once. Cheating occurs each and everyday, it’s just that they don’t get caught.</p>
<p>When I meant by cheating, I meant during tests, essays, etc…I mean, for work in class, I<code>ll sometimes ask someone what they got for #3, for example, and I</code>ll help them out if they<code>re stuck…but other than that, honestly, no. And I don</code>t really consider that cheating, but maybe some of you guys do…I guess the definition of “cheating” can vary a little.</p>
<p>Alot of cheating, nearly everybody… Some just say ■■ it and don’t care about it getting the failing grade, others cheat and still fail, while other normally cheat.</p>
<p>I am not admitting that I haven’t cheated, since it’s a thing everyone does…</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s that bad among the top 50 in my class (about top 10%). Although our current valedictorian (with 6 semester ranks) is a notorious cheater. Got caught once too, but got off with no penalty for some reason. Needless to say, people were NOT happy when class ranks came out and she got #1. On top of that, she’s not the nicest person, so yeah.
As for me, I haven’t cheated on a test from what I remember (maybe some stuff in middle school?). Well, in-class I should say. Take home tests I’ve compared answers with others, so there’s that.</p>
<p>Back when I was gangbangin’ in high-school, cheating nearly cost me the title of valedictorian. I’d say it was a pretty big deal.</p>
<p>Problem is that teachers are either:
A. Too old and oblivious to realize the sheer number of ways by which students cheat. And really, it’s easy.
B. Teachers are limited in what they can do by way of discipline to cheaters.
C. Cheating, from the small scale (“what was on the quiz that you took earlier?”) to the large-scale (using a lockpick to break into the teacher’s drawer for a copy of the final with solutions, and then hiding the entire text in a calculator program–yes, this happened) is so rampant that nobody really gets angry about it.</p>
<p>I guess in the real world, China steals our patents and gov’t cronies live off the taxpayer’s dime, so the lesson to be learned here is a worldly one.</p>
<p>Well it’s America, cheating is an epidemic in all walks of life, except for the Amish maybe. Honestly though, i think most cheating that goes on in high school is a matter of sheer laziness, not inability to do the work. It’s kind of hard to defend that. I mean, if the work is unjustifiably difficult that’s one thing, but I don’t remember that ever being the case.</p>
<p>I’m one of the few people who never cheats. The only instant I can remember cheating was in elementary school when I would glance at the answers next to me just to see if we were getting that same thing. We even had an instant in English where the teacher left the class all period, and in Euro where we had a sub who let everyone take home a test that we weren’t supposed to. Both times I was the only one who didn’t cheat.</p>
<p>However I never have issues letting people chest from me as long as it doesn’t harm me. I’ll generally let anyone copy my class work, and usually have2-3 people copying the euro hw a day.</p>
<p>Cheating isn’t that huge of a deal here. No one really cheats on tests unless its Made overly easy to do so.</p>
<p>It is not that big of deal at my school. Almost everybody in the honors program copies homework from time to time because the give us so much and/or you will trade homework (you give somebody the answers to the math homework, they give you the answers to the English homework or something along those lines). Rarely is there cheating on tests though, more so in the non-honors classes though the teachers apparently never care.</p>
<p>This is going to sound weird, but according to what would be considered cheating in my school, it’s EXTREMELY rare. I don’t think I know of anybody who really cheats. Definitely not on tests and quizzes, and I’d assume not on homework. But here’s the caveat: groupwork is encouraged. Nobody’s going to call you a cheater if you send out the answers to a test review sheet (as opposed to an actual bona fide due-the-next-day sheet) or if you help other people with their essays (heck, if that were cheating I’d be the number-one offender). My school makes it very clear that cheating is copying answers onto tests, quizzes or homework assignments or straight-out plagiarism. And yes, people listen.</p>
<p>I don’t think cheating is that big of a deal to be honest. No one at my school who cheats ends up with higher scores than the honest students anyway. I’ve never cheated on tests or essays, but often my friends and I have study sessions where we sort of do our homework together, but idk if that counts as cheating. Our teachers actually ENCOURAGE “collaboration,” which most students are pretty happy with but I don’t honestly think it will benefit us in the long run. Like, for AP US History we will have to do 16 essay questions, and the teacher will tell us just to do four and get with three others and copy the other 12.</p>
<p>I’d say cheating is pretty rampant at my school. I’ve heard of classes where everyone has their phones in their lap during tests. I’ve also seen cheating via Facebook. I’ve heard of kids stealing answer keys and sharing them with friends. And I’ve seen the good old fashion methods of copying off another student’s test or writing questions on one’s hand. I have reported cheating before. One time someone was cheating off me, without my knowledge, and I reported him to my teacher. I don’t view it as tattling or being a snitch. I think it’s the right thing to do.</p>