<p>The funny thing is I gaurantee you every person in here trying to chastise you for cheating on some BS high school test that no one cares about has done the same. My advice? Lie. Admitting it will greatly impact your chances of being admitted to colleges, whereas lying will save your ass. After that, drop the class and tell the teacher you don't want her to write your recommendation anymore. No matter what she'll at least make some mention of what happened.</p>
<p>BTW, I know I'll take crap for being honest with him, but what I said is what everyone was inwardly thinking. They just wanted to be PC about it.</p>
<p>P.S.S. How can you be so stupid to get caught? Most high school teachers are retarded. Sucks to be you.</p>
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<p>You people going alone these lines of thought don't make sense. If he admits it it will get reported no matter what, if he lies he has a chance to save his ass. It's a lot easier for you on your throne of purity to tell him to fess up when such a stupid matter will change his life, not yours. Then again, the same people who get caught cheating on high school tests also don't have the ability to smooth talk their way out of things, so maybe he is screwed.</p>
<p>Seriously, how'd you get caught...n french class no less.</p>
<p>Our entire french class cheats on every tests. Hey, it's not our fault she chooses to set up the table in groups so that we're facing each other. :)</p>
<p>iono it's really up to the teacher. like there was this one girl a couple of years back and she plagarized an essay, even though it was after she got into an ivy league college. well the teacher had a difficult time debating whether to report it or not. in the end she didnt but the girl got stripped of all her graduation honors etc. </p>
<p>if you admit, hopefully you'll have a merciful teacher that wont tell the colleges cuz cheating would really really hurt your admissions chances</p>
<p>if you lie, well 1) they might find out later or 2) they might never find out b/c they dont have any proof, but she'll prolly write a terrible recommendation letter and all your teachers will dislike you.</p>
<p>Definitely admit it. My DH is a HS teacher and I can tell you that the only thing that aggravates him more than a student cheating is a student cheating and then refusing to admit that he cheated. </p>
<p>It's obvious that you did cheat, that deal about "we studied together" is completely transparent. Do you honestly think a teacher would say, "Oh, okay then, that's perfectly all right. You studied together, now it's all so clear to me." </p>
<p>Admit it, say you realize it was a really stupid thing to do and you'll never do it again, and you realize it makes it difficult for her to write you a recommendation. See what she says to that. She might still be willing to write the recommendation since you confessed and took your punishment.</p>
<p>blame it on your friend. since he obviously copied your answers. Say you didnt consent and he copied anyways...</p>
<p>anyways from a realistic perspective you have two choices</p>
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<li><p>Dont admit to cheating, teacher makes you retake quiz, she cant really prove you cheated based on two answers. How long was the quiz? and you get a recommendation from a new teacher, because you tell him I am very upset that you think i cheated on a quiz and have no further respect for you.</p></li>
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<p>the choice is up to you based on your morals.</p>
<p>Just admit it and sincerely apologize. You'll be able to live with yourself, your teacher will respect you, and you will have learned a valuable lesson early in life before the consequences are dire. Good luck!</p>
<p>The question becomes what can you live with? What do you want to remember about the situation? You made a mistake, how you deal with it becomes a basis for your character down the road. </p>
<p>I'm sure the guys at worldcom, enron, healthsouth and elsewhere didn't develope dishonest behavor in the last few years...did they? </p>
<p>You might be able to fool your French teacher, but how bout yourself? Do what you can live with.</p>
<p>First of all, determine if you're the guilty one. It is no good to lie but even worse to admit that you're guilty and, hence, lie again.
How exactly were you sharing the answers? If you were offering huge help and whispering, along with pushing paper to his face -- you're guilty. If he was just looking beyond your shoulder and you didn't do anything-- it is by no means your fault.
So, tell the truth, but don't hang on yourself things you didn't do.</p>
<p>First its French quizzes, next its college research papers, and finally it's spouses. Cheaters need to be tortured. Chuck Norris never cheated. </p>
<p>On a serious note, I hate cheaters and never cheated in college. But then again this is high school and you were giving out the answers, not getting them from someone else, so if you can get away with it, just lie. And never give out answers again. Do a benefit analysis before you just admit to cheating. </p>
<p>PS Never ask the CC community for advice on topics such as this. They would probably tell someones wife that they were fat. Sometimes a lie that doesn't hurt anyone is way better than the truth.</p>
<p>Ok this thread proves to me that CC people are perhaps the dumbest people when it comes to issues pertaining to common sense. joev's right, it would be stupid to screw your life over and tell the truth when you could lie and still be clean. Honesty's not always the best policy.</p>
<p>I find it interesting following this thread and that some recommend lying. The plot gets thicker. First, the poster essentially admitted he cheated and then actively sought support for his idea of lying about doing so. The poster started this thread despite that it is not that hard for someone, like his teacher, to see this thread. I mean how many students got caught today cheating on a french quiz by the teacher, from whom the student requested a recommendation, discovering that two answers were the same on a make-up quiz (does dead giveaway come to mind?). The detail provided made me think that perhaps this is a make-believe post just to see how people here would react; I am still not convinced otherwise (anyone else notice that this thread contains the poster's only posts on CC). Second, assuming this is real, the poster has obviously not thought through a major risk not mentioned above if he lies -- what if his friend doesn't? Likely they are going to be questioned separately. Even if "friends" agree to lie when each goes into the meeting, neither has assurance that the other won't change his mind at the last instance (criminals do it all the time during questioning by police). Thus, the poster faces the risk of having cheated and then being discovered as having lied about it afterwards and possibly as even having agreed with his friend (who gets religion at the last minute) to lie about it afterward (are we now heading down the road to he may not get into college?)</p>