How to tell someone to stop copying homework?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>ok, I know a lot of people ask this, but I'm going to ask this kind of thing anyway.</p>

<p>This girl always comes to me to copy physics homework, and once or twice is ok, but she does this every.single.day. and it pisses me off, because I literally spend 3-4 hours on that homework. There was even once when she copied my physics homework right in front of the physics teacher. Thankfully, I didn't get a 0.</p>

<p>pretend my name is Lily.
she actually asks "oh Lily, my sweat little angel, did you do your xxx homework? Can I see?" (Just wondering, is that normal? because it creeps me out)</p>

<p>I've tried saying that I didn't do it, or that I'm pretty sure it's all wrong. But that is an obvious lie, because I'm one of those "smart" students that always does the homework the night before. And she sits right next to me in the classes that she copies off me, and is CONSTANTLY looking at my papers and asking questions so I can't like, lie, basically.</p>

<p>Any advice to avoid her? Though I've tried so hard to do that already. In any given class we have together, she sits right next to me. lovely right. assigned seats too.</p>

<p>So I am the kind of person that is unable to say "no," for the most part, and also that "nice" person. I want to smack myself. How should I tell her "no," without coming off as mean? Because then it's going to be super awkward when I sit next to her.</p>

<p>And this other girl literally follows me everywhere. If I join the art club, she joins the art club. I stopped going to the art club, she stopped too. I joined the book club, and she came too. Then she wants to know where I volunteer so that we can go there and volunteer together. If I say I like xxxx, she says she also likes xxxx.</p>

<p>SO, CC, any general advice?
and does anyone possibly know how these people think?</p>

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<p>i have the same problem. Just straight up tell them NO. They aren’t going to hate you. If you keep it up, they are just going to take advantage of you,.</p>

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<p>Just straight up tell them “no.” If she asks why, straight up tell her “because I work a long time on it, and it’s frustrating that you get credit for it through using my work.” </p>

<p>Just be up front about it. No getting around that if you want it to stop. </p>

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<p>When people ask me if they could copy my homework I tell them that I didn’t really understand the homework, so I guessed on everything. Sometimes, of course, that doesn’t work though because some people will still copy my homework regardless.</p>

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<p>Good opportunity to learn how to say no</p>

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<p>For person #1, I recommend that you talk to your teachers in private and request a seat change, I doubt there will be a lot of suspicious due to the fact the quarter ended recently.</p>

<p>For person #2, I don’t really see the problem. Who doesn’t want a fanboy/girl? </p>

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Actually, once or twice is not OK, which is how that barn door got opened. Just say no.</p>

<p>Girl #2 is craving attention from you. If you don’t want her in your inner circle of friends, suggest someone who might also share her interests (unless the girl is really creepy/stalky, then you certainly don’t want to pawn her off on someone else).</p>

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<p>thanks everyone for the replies!</p>

<p>@LordBendtner‌ yeah definitely, I should. </p>

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<p>Say No but don’t be too harsh about it. Just play it off, but don’t straight up say “no”. </p>

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<p>@CeLcel‌ </p>

<pre><code>I would think of a way to say “no” politely, but then tell her the day before that you don’t feel comfortable giving out your homework answers. That would at least give her the opportunity to do her homework that night, rather than just saying “no” and right out of the blue which leaves her without any homework to turn in. Even though she most likely will not do her homework (as she has in the past), you at least let her know and gave her the opportunity. You could possibly tell her how you both could get in trouble by sharing homework, but if she needs help with her homework or doesn’t understand something that you could help her.
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<p>I don’t know if you ended up telling her today, but just in case I though I would put my two cents in… :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

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<p>Let her copy and she won’t learn. Once Finals come around, she will most likely fail. That’s how I look at it, anyways. </p>

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<p>Sorry, don’t let her copy. Let her parents know. But if you don’t want to do that, just say “I don’t fell comfortable letting you copy my homework any more, because it takes me so long to do it.” And if you want to cultivate the relationship, maybe you can work together on the homework and get done in a shorter time.</p>

<p>If the homework is not collected, just checked, she can use your stuff to study from, so she wouldn’t necessarily fail by copying.</p>

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<p>Sorry for not adding to the main topic of the conversation, but 3-4 hours for Physics homework???</p>

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<p>One of my kids had this issue back in middle school. There was a kid who copied math homework. Never did it himself, always mooching off the others. So the moochees got fed up and they ALL created a false homework with all wrong answers and let the kid copy. He never asked again. </p>

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<p>That must suck. I haven’t really dealt with people like that, only those that look to copy maybe one, two at most questions, which I don’t have a real problem with most of the time because I can see that they actually did the rest of it correctly.</p>

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<p>Hand her a dummy copy of the homework with dramatically incorrect answers. Once she gets dingged, if she says anything, just tell her you must have mistakenly shared your worksheet rather than your final homework. </p>