<p>Like all schools people cheat... BUT at our school there seems to be ALOT of kids who are willing to turn other kids in. There isn't a bond between students at our school... we're all a bunch of backstabbers :) I know that in Latin one year, we had a sub the day of our big test and a few kids in the back had PDA's out accessing the internet looking up answers. It was a crowded class and the sub couldn't have seen it but a bunch of students did. I wrote the principal two days later(we have an anonymous email system) and he replied that FOUR other students had turned the cheaters in. Just last week a bunch of kids had papers up their sleeve and were cheating on a multiple choice test which had been given earlier in the day and a friend of mine immediately went down to the principal and turned them all in... now all suspended. </p>
<p>Is this normal? </p>
<p>There isn't much cheating on homework because most homework isn't graded... do it if you want to pass the tests(most questions are from homework) and if you don't you'll fail anyway. </p>
<p>The year before I attended my school there was a big bust on a few students who would change grades in the database for cash... pretty smart if you ask me! I think it went on for a while but the kids who were caught wouldn't tell the names of the kids grades they changed or how long they'd been doing it. Our computer database manager isn't too bright so he couldn't find out either.</p>
<p>whoa, i don't think that's normal at all! haha your school is like every administration's dream. over here, no one rats out cheaters for fear of being ostracized by their peers as a traitor. i guess that doesn't apply to your school b/c everyone's willing. the mindset of your school actually makes a lot more sense since in keeping this cheating "loyalty" to your classmates, you're hurting both groups in the process. but of course, no one goes by what makes sense. sheep herd mentality lives on!</p>
<p>We've got some very creative cheaters at my school. I've never had the guts to cheat... (not to mention if I don't know it, I doubt anybody else in my class will either.)</p>
<p>At my school we're allowed to have bottled drinks in class. Kids used to buy a drink, carefully remove the label, tape a cheatsheet around the bottle (smaller than the label, with the text facing inward) and reattach the label with a little double sided tape or a glue stick. During the test they drink about half of their soda to reveal the writing on the inside of the bottle. They can easily look down through the plastic top of the bottle to read the writing behind the label, but it's very hard for anyone else to see.</p>
<p>I've seen/heard of everything..... I myself do not cheat (anymore) I got caught in the 8th grade and my teacher didn't tell anyone as long as I promised to never do it again, adn I've kept my word (I will continue to do so)</p>
<ul>
<li>writing the formulas in the TI-83</li>
<li>writing answers in a water bottle</li>
<li>writing answers on a small piece of paper</li>
<li>looking off of someone else's paper</li>
<li>having a friend who took the test before you write down the test answers</li>
<li>using scotch tape</li>
<li>writting a a rubber band</li>
<li>write on your leg and wear a skirt</li>
</ul>
<p>Also the teachers at my school are really dumb, and use the same test every year so you can just get the test from an upperclassman friend.</p>
<p>Extremely prevalent. I can't stand it, especially when it's people ranked above me that are doing the cheating. I've gotten the closest I've ever been to cheating within the past few weeks. The temptation is there....I've just never given into it. (Well, with the exception of 1st grade. :o)</p>
<p>I'm such an anti-cheater that if I happen to see an answer on someone else's test/quiz, I make sure I don't mark that answer on my scantron...even when I know it's right. :-/ Unless, of course, I've already marked that answer.</p>
<p>Interesting post, anovice. At my school, with the exception of finals and midterms, kids don't really care about cheating. You'll get the occassional "Karma's goona get you!", but nobody turns anyone else in. During midterms and finals, however, kids will really show their disgust with you, but still not quite turn you in. It's just this understood sacred pact. It's like common courtesy.</p>
<p>Wow Anovice... I wouldn't like your school. My school's similar to aignam, we don't care about cheating. I think if you're going to tell on someone who's cheating you should at least also tell it to their face.</p>
<p>It's rampant, but not too high tech or urgent.just a nice thing kids get if you can. A lot of hte time kids don't care andtake the f's.Sometimes they exchange answers on tests, but no one really cares, even the teachers. I dont think the teachers mind because they need the kids to get good grades.. Most kids never do their homework. and if they really need it get it from other kids.</p>
<p>It always gets me really mad if someone asks me because i hate that they expect free answers, but if someone else is willing to do it, what do i care?It's not my problem</p>
<p>last year... we had 5 ap test stolen from the school VAULT. yeah. cheating is def to an extreme at my school. there have been stolen midtern and final exams.. and people also find out where some of the questions are from... and do ridicuously well on the exams. and some people just find out what test questions are from the friends.. and that sucks too.</p>
<p>well so no one has cheated? okay Here is one method which some missed! you can write the answers on the desk, and tape them to the inside of your calculator, or write them outside of your shoe, the all aroufn white lining! if wearing converse and long jeans, and sit kinda indian style but one leg hanging.</p>
<p>well so no one has cheated? okaywell I have :P Here is one method which some missed! you can write the answers on the desk, and tape them to the inside of your calculator, or write them outside of your shoe, the all around white lining! if wearing converse and long jeans, and sit kinda indian style but one leg hanging. sad bu true :) :(</p>
<p>There isn't (as far as I know) a lot of cheating at my school, since it's a tiny school and most classes have around 10 people (or fewer). For exams, we're not seated next to a person writing the same exam as we are, so looking over wouldn't give you anything useful at all. And besides, our tests have very little multiple choice or short answer questions; for the bulk of our test marks we have to write long answers to things, and it's much harder to cheat by glancing over with things like that. And our classrooms are very small, so teachers can see everything that goes on in them. As for submitting plagiarized essays, there have been a few cases in the past, but it's very rare and seems mostly to be caught. When teachers know their students really well, it's easy to tell when a student isn't writing his own stuff.</p>
<p>You know, I always hear about all these elaborate cheating methods that some people usethe bottle thing mentioned above, for exampleand it always strikes me as really silly. Because in the time it took for you to think these complicated schemes up and prepare everything carefully so that they work, couldn't you just study and learn the material? Doesn't it take less effort to memorize a few facts than to do all this stuff? I've just never seen the point.</p>
<p>The worst cases of cheating happen in the math classes at my school, since most of the upper level ones are taught by one teacher. This certain teacher has us grade every bit of our own homework. So, of course about 98% of the class cheats. The either write down answers as she says them, or just don't give the correct grade when she askes for scores. She never collects papers. The result of this is that alot of kids in class have a 95 or 96% on homework grade(50% of total grade), while a 50% on tests. The teacher actually recently gave us a wrong answer while giving answers, then went around to see who the cheaters were who had either wrote it down or not counted it wrong. However, this has done little to stop the problem. It's just gonna happen.</p>