<p>My school, like I said before, is pretty bad about cheating, but I can say that I don`t believe that anyone has ever stolen an answer key.</p>
<p>I mean, it’s high school. The teachers are as likely to catch someone as to falsely accuse a top student of cheating because the teachers could never pull off a paper or test like that. Yeah it’s that bad in my experience.</p>
<p>‘Cheating’ is usually such a blurry term, especially when it’s also like ‘groupwork’. In my school there’s been some pretty blatant cheating. Phones under the desk, sharing test questions during lunch, etc. It’s upsetting, yeah.</p>
<p>Just wait until the cheaters go to college. The fun begins then.</p>
<p>If what it takes to get to the likes of HYP is cheating, then attending this sort of institution makes me sick to my stomach.</p>
<p>At my school no one really cares when you cheat on homework, its just all about the tests and papers. Recently the entire senior class got caught at my school plagiarizing their summer reading paper (yeah all 104 of us lol)</p>
<p>My favorite is when a kid cheats… and still gets a C. They put more effort into cheating than actually studying. This was especially a problem in my APUSH class last year, and then there are the kids who don’t go to school on test days so they can find out all the answers. It makes me sick. I don’t really care about copying homework, since apparently a lot of people go to schools where homework is just dumb worksheets and other copiable BS. I don’t know how I would copy any of my current homework. Plus, that defeats the purpose, and if you just go on cheating, you’ll never know how to actually do anything.</p>
<p>^ True…the kids who copy and cheat are the ones that are either:</p>
<p>1) Sitting in jail a few years later
2) On their way or already are a juvenile delinquent
3) Not going to get very far in life</p>
<p>Yeah, well at my school, 3 out of 4 of my classes this semester are classes that just have worksheets, textbook work, etc, but my AP class, we have homework that is “non-copying”…impossible to do, and besides, I know some of your guys<code>s school have say, 3 AP classes JUST for that subject, but at my school, each AP course has only one class of 25 kids, so that means it</code>s the 25 smartest kids in the class, and we all have high morals and integrity, so even if homework WAS worksheets for that class, nobody would anyhow.</p>
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<p>Only booting a few out of NHS? That’s kind of ridiculous. At my school, if you get caught even cheating on homework, they’ll kick you out of NHS. If you were part of a cheating ring, you’d probably get suspended or expelled. </p>
<p>I’ve found that there are two types of people who cheat: people who are just really stupid and are too lazy to do the work or study for the test, and people who are really busy and have taken on too much and are just desperate for a way out. I used to have a problem warding off people who fell into the first category a lot, and the teacher was always SO oblivious to them. As I’ve started taking more and more IB and AP classes, the number of people who fall into the first category of cheaters has waned, but the number of people who fall into the second category has increased… I actually feel bad for the people in the second category because I understand where they’re coming from, but I know that if I ever felt so desperate that I had to resort to plagiarizing from the internet or cheating off another person’s test, I’d know lighten my courseload a little bit. I just wish others felt the same.</p>
<p>In my APUSH class in 11th grade, my teacher would use old AP exams for take home tests. He discovered a considerable number of students cheated when they all failed and scored in the 10-30s because they looked up the wrong year for the exam and copied the wrong answer key. I was laughing so hard in class but I don’t know what the ultimate punishment was.</p>
<p>People cheat so much at my school. It’s a daily thing. Cheat sheets before a quiz, copying someone’s test, looking up test answers, taking test copies home, asking for someone’s binder who’s already taken a class, it all happens. There’s like one person in my AP Chem class who did the work on our first test and then passed it around to like 10 other people.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure if it’s extremely common in my school but I have seen a few cases of it. Mostly students using their cell phones to Google up answers. I’m not sure if group work counts as cheating though. As said before in previous posts, some schools do encourage teamwork. In some cases at least. Still, it is frustrating when someone who cheated gets a higher score than you. </p>
<p>This might sound strange but this reminds of that one episode in South Park when they parody the film “Stand and Deliver”. The one in which Cartman teaches a class of students how to cheat in order to succeed in life.</p>
<p>Well, as discussed earlier in the thread, there’s many definitions and interpretations of cheating. In our school, copying homework is not a big deal at all and is almost never caught by teachers. I’m mainly in honors and AP classes and when we copy each other’s work we’re smart enough to put it in our own words and such. </p>
<p>When it comes to cheating on tests, it depends on the class: vocabulary tests and reading checks in all English courses are consistently cheated on due to the ditziness of many of the teachers. I don’t cheat on tests because I don’t believe I get any benefit out of it. I occasionally will copy homework because it’s usually busy work with no real value and I’d rather not have a 0 in the books. I’m not trying to justify it in any way, it’s not right, but it’s just the way things work in my school hahaha</p>
<p>As for punishments, cheating is rarely caught but when it is, the test/homework is simply ripped up and the person is given a 0. If this is consistent, they’ll get in administrative trouble.</p>
<p>My school basically smacks us in the face with all the repercussions of getting caught cheating in any class. But apparently one kid who was caught plagiarizing a paper was later given an “Integrity Award” and is now on a full ride to a top university. -_- Somehow this doesn’t strike me as particularly fair…Oh well, c’est la vie.</p>
<p>Cheating is a problem at my school but only in the classes with the “bad” teachers. When students feel that the teacher has not done his job, they see it as only fair that they cheat to make up for it. It bothers me to watch dumb kids succeed, but whatever unless it causes me to loose my position at #1.</p>
<p>I don’t think my school has a problem at all. Though, most of the kids don’t care about school enough to bother.</p>
<p>The vice president and secretary of the National Honor Society(I am in NHS too) in my school took pictures of history and chemistry tests on their phones and texted it to all their friends. They do this regularly. It makes me so mad.</p>
<p>I got to be honest the most cheating classes we’re languages classes… Even I cheated because I need to spell each words perfectly. Not saying I cheat all the time just when I know I ain’t doing well. But no problem in other classes </p>
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<p>It got really bad at my school. A group of 30 or seniors (class of 2012) had a cheating ring going on, where they would trade test banks for various AP Classes. One day, one of the members of the group was ratted out, and was forced to leak the contents of the group to the school administration. The creator of the group, a person who had graduated Summa cum Laude(4.5+ GPA) almost had his college acceptance rescinded. Did i forget to mention he got into Harvard for Economics? There were also a couple of Northwestern’ers, an NYU Stern, a UChicago, a UPenn, and a bajillion UMich’ers who all almost got their college acceptances rescinded. When i say “almost” i mean the Vice Principle in charge of Curriculum was like “rescind the fools. make an example” but the head principle was like “woah woah woah. no. if we have to tell ivy league schools that the kids cheated its going to look terrible on us. and the district will probably launch an investigation into the school.” - which is why they got their asses saved.</p>
<p>I go to a really strict school and in my school you can actually automatically fail a marking period if you’re caught cheating. On a bright side, my school is pretty collaborative and there normally isn’t much reason to do severe cheating. I’ve had people share and trade answers with each other but even then the students work together to understand how they got each answer. I’d say the biggest form of cheating at my school may be using SparkNotes, but that’s about it.</p>