<p>Lets just say there’s a lot of kids in our “national honors society” that aren’t too honorable.</p>
<p>My school has a one-strike policy for cheating, it’s actually pretty crazy. Every year 3-4 people get kicked out anyway but cheating really isn’t much of a problem except in classes where the teachers just don’t pay any attentions.</p>
<p>When people I didn’t like tried to copy off my tests I used to put down the wrong answers (later erase them) and they’d fail hard</p>
<p>^:D NICE</p>
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<p>Two girls in my school were caught cheating by the principal himself a few days ago. They received a 1 day in-school suspension, which I honestly think was quite… lenient.</p>
<p>I try hard in school but honestly no one gives the effort If they can just copy off my answers. The teachers don’t pay attention to it at all.</p>
<p>@Barrk123
I saw one of my friends do that to the people sitting around him. He saw people copying him(obnoxious people no less), and he purposely set his paper out so they would copy him. Then after they turned their tests in, he erased all of his answers and changed them. Needless to say he got 100% and they got in the 60’s%. You should have seen the look on their faces when they got the tests back. Then they ran over to my friend to see his score which was 100%. LMAO</p>
<p>I’ll exchange homework answers with people sometimes, or ask about the nature of questions on a test or quiz. I also let people copy my work and will tell them what’s on a test/quiz, though there’s no way I’d take pictures of the test or anything like that.</p>
<p>Honestly, the idea of people cheating - even cheating off of my tests, say, when I have worked harder than they have to know those answers - doesn’t really bother me. People who cheat rather than learning the material have lost the opportunity to learn and understand the world better, and that, in itself, is punishment enough, I think.</p>
<p>People cheat all the time. I wish teachers caught them. Me, I can’t ever cheat, and neither would I want to. Teachers trust me, and they put their trust in the right person. They allow me to do things like write my homework on my phone and also take notes on my phone.</p>
<p>There was a student at our high school who did things to hurt others grades/help her own.
She was Chinese and her parents were very restrictive with her…she was never allowed to go to others’ houses to study or for group projects, they always had to be at her house. People who went there always seemed to find things missing from their backpacks the next day–a book, a notebook, a completed assignment, a calculator…</p>
<p>No one ever really seemed to notice a pattern though.</p>
<p>One night some students were at her house to work on a group project for Latin and during a break read each other some of their creative writing projects that were due the next day in AP Lit. One boy’s project was in an orange folder.</p>
<p>The next day the boy goes to turn in the assignment…and it’s not in his backpack, which means a 0 on the assignment…no late work accepted. A lot of the students told the teacher that they had seen it the night before.</p>
<p>Two periods later, when the girl was taking out her calculator in Calculus class, an orange folder fell out of her back pack and she put it away really fast. Another student saw it and went and told the AP Lit teacher what she had seen. The AP Lit teacher took it seriously, got the Asst. Principal…and got the girl out of class and asked her to show them her back pack. The paper was in there…as well as some other kids assignments from various other classes. They checked her locker and found other kids books, notebooks, assignments, calculators. And rumor was that a whole bunch more was found at her home. </p>
<p>Apparently it was her mother’s idea. If she could hurt others’ grades–it would benefit her. For example, a student without a calculator had to do a lab or take a quiz without it. A student without an assignment gets a 0. A student who has lost a book or a notebook can’t study effectively for a test. Etc.</p>
<p>It was quite the scandal at the school.</p>
<p>The girl ended up leaving the school and enrolling elsewhere…A friend said that her son attended the same local university that she did, and that she got into trouble for sabotaging another student’s lab work in a chemistry lab.</p>
<p>WOW. That almost seems like something you<code>d see happen in a movie. And it was the mother</code>s idea? Wow, some parents she had. </p>
<p>That`s the winning story of this thread.</p>
<p>I can honestly say I’ve never cheated on a test/quiz but those HW assignments that are just multiple choice and busy work…well I’m not so clean. I really only copy HW when I completely forget to do it.<br>
As for my school and cheating, its bad. Last year in spanish 15 (of 24) kids had the same answers. She called them out on it but couldn’t do anything since it was a final. Foruantly for me because the kid they all copied off of was me (I found out afterward). My lunch table devies out HW and I’ve not taken a test/quiz where I’ve not seen a person cheat. Honestly though the CP classes cheat moree than the Honors students</p>
<p>When I was a Teaching Assistant, I got sick & tired of the cheating going on in my undergrad course. So I for one exam, I created an A and a B version of the test. </p>
<p>Superficially, the tests looked identical, but I changed one key word or one number in each of the problems in version A, so the correct answers were ALL different as compared to the correct answers for version B.</p>
<p>I handed out the exams A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B to the already seated students. </p>
<p>Come grading time, I was amazed by how many students copied from their neighbors answers that had absolutely no connection to the test in front of them. I was spared the past unpleasantness of having to accuse students of cheating. I just marked the wrong answers with a BIG FAT ZERO and failed the cheaters.</p>
<p>lol, one of the cheaters had the gall to come to my office to complain that I inconsistently marked the answers wrong on HER test, when I marked them as correct on her friend’s test.</p>
<p>… Ok I admit I cheat. But it’s so easy. The only classes I don’t cheat is the ones I am good in like Pre-Calculus and Some S.S courses. Also I don’t cheat on AP Chem because it like people are guessing the right answers. </p>
<p>But if there is cheating in class, I blame the teachers. Not just because of no effort to prevent cheating but some teachers make tests too hard. For example I must memorize how to spell 20 different words in Spanish and you must be perfect spelling. However our teacher (who was new) offer her greatest advice and help: Online spelling and usage of flashcards. The test itself was a cheating bait but the teacher made us memorize the words and in turn prevent cheating. In Math you can’t really cheat (in regular math), because at least half the class don’t even know the answers. </p>
<p>I admire the teachers for doing the A, B, C forms tests. And hates the teachers that make tests too hard</p>
<p>I can’t honestly say that I’ve noticed. I’m sure it happens extremely frequently in my school, but most of these kids are cheating to pass- not cheating to perfection.</p>
<p>Boysx3…why in the world would she keep their stuff at school and in her possession?</p>
<p>At my school, my history teacher doesn’t even care. My friend takes out his textbook every test (we sit in the back) and just goes shopping for answers. Our school even has Wi-Fi, which he uses on his phone to look up other stuff.</p>
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<p>It’s called ‘rationalizing’ when you say it is OK to cheat because everyone else is doing it.</p>
<p>I personally know of 4 students from my school who cheated on the ACT- one was brilliant and got consistent 36’s, so he did them a “favor” by taking the test again and going to the back of the room and filling out their answer sheets for them. This resulted in students who were originally at around a 26-28 score range being bumped up to a 31. Having studied intensely for my 34, I’m disgusted. The sad thing is, there’s really no way to go about proving it either. I’m so sorry if this has affected anyone else, as well.</p>
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<p>This statement is going to make me sad the rest of the day.</p>
<p>Cheating is huge at my school. It’s so bad to the point where people get really, really mad at me when I refuse to let them use my work or copy or whatever. Almost half the people in the top 10% of my class have blatantly admitted to me they’ve copied on a major assignment (like a final, research paper, etc.) or that they copy regularly. Plus, if I have a legitimate study group with some other honest friends and we work some math problems separately and then talk each other through them on a homework assignment, I’m scared to talk about it in school because teachers will think we were just copying answers.</p>