<p>I applaud your moral compass but you can’t have such a narrow mindset
of course going to a good college doesn’t mean you can’t be successful, but it reduces your chances of doing so
talking about answers on a test is a common practice, and this girl doesn’t deserve the repercussions
I completely agree with clementines2016
there’s really no argument here
tattling is clearly the wrong way to go</p>
<p>^ Have you ever heard the phrase “you can’t do it all”? If you can’t handle five AP classes while doing all of your other activities, then don’t take five AP classes. Or if you want to keep the classes, drop some of the other activities. Cheating should not be the way to handle that kind of situation. Anyway, back to the original issue posted.</p>
<p>How can you people say that she does not deserve the repercussions if she has known what the consequences are for cheating the whole time?</p>
<p>@Latin</p>
<p>Yeah, but everyone does this, and everyone knows that it happens, including the teachers. It’s ubiquitous to the point that no one takes it seriously, and to suddenly get this one girl labelled a cheater on her record when she’s just doing what everyone else does is unfair.</p>
<p>If OP’s going to bust this one girl, then s/he should bust everyone. I find it difficult to believe that this is the first time the OP heard someone ask a friend about a test or quiz.</p>
<p>Oh, I see… you people are suspicious that the OP does not bust everyone, that s/he just wants to improve his/her class rank. </p>
<p>But out of this context, yes, she deserves the zero.</p>
<p>Question: What if someone got a question on say a Pre-Calculus test from a student who has already taken it, and then asked an AP Calculus student how to do the problem as opposed to figuring it out herself. Should that be reported to a teacher? I guess what I am asking is, where would you draw the line?</p>
<p>@ Latin</p>
<p>In theory, it should be reported. In theory, asking for the questions is cheating and everyone who did it should be reported. I don’t like cheating, and I usually dislike threads about cheating where people say that fudging your ECs stuff like that are not a big deal.</p>
<p>Like I said, though, everyone in my school – inccluding people who are otherwise scrupulously moral about not using the internet to do take-home quizzes, etc. – do this, and it’s not really considered to be that serious. I find it unfair that the OP would single this girl out for doing something that is ubiquitous. </p>
<p>At the very least, OP should give the girl a warning herself and see if she does it again before calling her a cheater.</p>
<p>If this question-giving is ubiquitous in your school, why does no one do anything about it? Do all the students succumb to cheating because they don’t want to be disadvantaged since they are not getting the same advantages as those who already get questions? </p>
<p>I presume that the answer is that teachers and administration know this occurs, and do not care, despite that it is against the school’s policies. Hope I’m wrong.</p>
<p>It is incredibly annoying when a school system does not follow its own policies (not just with cheating, but with anything).</p>
This is a really late reply, but the fact that the OP turned in this poor girl makes me sick.
I mean, we can all ubiquitously agree that the OP turned in the Val. to further her own ranking, which besides being incredibly selfish, only proves that the OP is just as cut-throat as the Val she caught cheating.
Second of all, the OP said this became a major scandal in her school. That means this chick most likely lost the trust of the entire teaching staff at her school, and received a bad stigma around her class mates. These are the kinds of things that make people commit SUICIDE.
Lastly, this wasn’t even that big of a deal in terms of cheating. Hell, I bet the OP has done the same exact thing. Because of this “scandal” this girl will probably have a note on her transcript, shitty teacher recs. and will (obviously) lose her rank.
The worst part of this entire thing is that the O.P. is proud of “doing the right thing.” She feels morally superior to the former Val, when she freaking strong armed her into admitting to cheating.
Filthy little grade grubbers.
I’m seriously appalled by this. Cheating speaks to her work ethic, but hurting others to get ahead speaks to your ethics. I hope you know that you did not do this because it was the right thing but did it because it’s what helped you.
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