<p>there is something wrong with the education system....not the kids its the ridiculous demands of these schools which force kids to cheat.....and honestly your stupid enough for blatantly cheating in the first place...why would you leave the tests on your desk, that makes me laugh and also dont say you have never cheated before...i find it very hard to believe somebody would go their whole life without cheating and then commit the ultimate sin of cheating...stealing the test...cmmoonnnnnnn</p>
<p>How could you be so dumb? Not only is cheating immoral, snatching some tests off the desk is just plain stupid.</p>
<p>Taking pictures of the test would have been much more efficient. Step into the 21st century son, we have camera phones now. I hope you learned your lesson and plan on using more advanced and practical methods for all your 'immoral' actions from now on.</p>
<p>boy co</p>
<p>Umm....Sorry, but what were you thinking, Cat0709?</p>
<p>This thread is a YEAR old! The OP probably isn't even around on CC anymore, and I'm sure the whole incident is over now.</p>
<p>Haha southeast, you're the first person ever. But I'm really not going to debate with people religiously against rule bending, so I'll skip that part. Eres Latino?</p>
<p>no, pero vivi en guatemala por un ano.</p>
<p>i agree though, virtuoso, bumping this thread up was kinda a dumb idea.</p>
<p>Ah, veo. Eres mas Latino que ellos que se llaman Latinos aqui. Nadie sabe lo que significa mi nombre menos ti. Espero que entiendas.</p>
<p>There definitely is some kind of acceptance of cheating in our culture for it to be so rampant. A large majority of many of my classes would and have cheated (and I'm in a special high honors section of a public high school), and think absolutely nothing of it. There are kids in my english class who go so far as to look information up on their iphones during tests. I don't really know what to say about, besides that cheating should at least make people feel bad, and I wonder why my peers seem to be absent of that guilt.</p>
<p>It's because it's somehow been programmed into people that cheating is the means to the end of winning in high school life, and since there's oh-so-much pressure on us these days, it's okay.</p>
<p>don't you feel ashamed? I have never cheated, not because I couldn't, not even because I am scared, I prefer to have an F than doing such kind of things.</p>
<p>Well I can tell that you are not a very good cheater. You should have kept those tests out of your teacher's sight. But its too late now.
This is what you should do: Think about all those kids at school, and really think about that kid that has always been an a-hole to you for no reason, like a bully or something. And when you have to pick a kid out for the principal, pick that kid, and when he comes he will "act" like he didn't do anything, but since you probably have better grades than him they will believe you and not him. Make sure the kid is already failing school and already got suspended multiple times and is probably not going to college, but make sure he isn't that bad so they expell him, because that would be bad. and make sure he is in your class, duh. Peace man and good luck.</p>
<p>you are fortunate you are not facing a legal action - see below - students facing criminal convictions for stealing tests from a locked filing cabinet - or serving as lookouts. </p>
<p>Hanover</a> High ends cheating investigation, 14 disciplined - AOL News</p>
<p>do you not realize that this was posted a year ago O_o</p>
<p>I don't have guilt when I cheat, everyone in all my AP classes cheats. Look here, think about this: There are so many different teachers, some are hard graders and others are easy graders, but they teach the same level classes. In my old school, in AP Physics, all of my old friends, who are smarter than me, are getting B's and C's, and I am just chillin here getting an easy A and barely doing anything. Why? Because of the teacher. My teacher is easy and offers a lot of extra credit, while the teacher in my old school does not offer any extra credit and is a very hard grader. So it is not fair to my old friends because these classes affect your GPA and colleges use GPA to compare students. So since the same classes have different difficulty levels due to the teachers, cheating is ok. Cheating fixes this unbalance. If every class was taught by a robot then cheating would be bad.</p>
<p>So basically, if a teacher gives you extra credit, that is the same thing as cheating, except it is called grade inflation. In my opinion, I think high school grades are garbage, there is only a .57 correlation with high school grades and success. They seriously should make a new education system because this one is corrupt.</p>
<p>and to the OP, even if you are not even there anymore, what you should have done was taken the original test, photocopied it, and then put it back. so they would never know that something is missing, and do not share it with anyone else because then someone would rat you out and it is much easier to get caught.</p>
<p>Usually kids who cheat are the ones who tend to get straight a's, because they feel that they have that kind of pressure on them.</p>
<p>While I do agree that this is a problem you got yourself into, I think it is possible to get out of it. Honesty is always the best policy. Otherwise, you're going to rely on chance or dig yourself into a bigger hole. Come clean. Explain that you are really stressed about the expectations you feel you have to fulfill. Write your teacher a letter of apology, explaining that you regret your actions and shall use the experience in the future to avoid any more wrong doing.</p>
<p>You've probably already resolved this issue somehow (I didn't check the date of this post or the posts before me) but that's just my two cents.</p>
<p>wait so what happened to the OP</p>
<p>reform your ways... that or, learn to be more cunning</p>
<p>edit: lol at all the self-righteousness in this thread...</p>
<p>That's the majority of CCers for ya.</p>
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In my opinion, I think high school grades are garbage, there is only a .57 correlation with high school grades and success.
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<li>A correlation coefficient of .57 indicates a moderate, positive, linear relationship between high school grades and success. It is positive, which is good. There is a moderate correlation, also good in the context of this problem, where one would not expect a perfect association. And this is only for least squares linear regression; perhaps a quadratic, power, or exponential model would be better.</li>
<li>How do they define success? There can only be correlation between two quantitative variables.</li>
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<p>Basically, I think you pulled that number off the top of your head, or the person you got it from did.</p>
<p>okay first of all i don't support cheaters or anything. i'm just saying that now that i'm thinking about it, it seems like just another thing ppl do to get good grades and get into college (obviously if you're skilled enough not to be caught.)</p>
<p>wow sometimes i don't think there's a problem with cheating; sure, it's morally incorrect, but nobody does anything morally correct anyways. and in terms of learning, well, it's a lot of people never actually "learn" the material they're tested on--they mite memorize it for a few days and then just forget it, which in the end is the same as cheating in that nothing is learned, period. plus most of the stuff that we learn in school has absolutely no use whatsoever. If you want to succeed in basically anything, cheating and buttkissing is the way to go. </p>
<p>i'm not a cheater, i don't need to be. and i do have a conscience and society has drilled it into us that cheating is baaad. so i will never cheat. but really, cheating is really not considered cheating unless you get caught. otherwise it's all part of this game to get into a good college and get a good job and step on other people as you ascend the ladder of success and make money. Then you can get married and cheat on your spouses and everyone will feel great.</p>