(I KNOW THIS IS LONG JUST BEAR WITH ME) Okay so this past weeked i checked my grades and noticed that I had two 0’s for assigments that I’m almost possitive I turned in. I am currently a sophmore in high school so i talked to my teacher about it the next day and she said that she’d look for them but she didnt find them because i looked yesterday and I still had zeros for that assigment. I started freaking out because those two zeros dropped my grade down from what once what an A to a low C. I didnt know how to explain to my teacher that i for sure turned those two papers in because she’s let our class know many times that she doesn’t accept any late work-what-so-ever, so I knew I was screwed. Then come today my mom texted me in school and said that If i didnt have those grades fixed by the end of the day i’d be grounded for 5 weeks. So I kinda went into a state of panic because i knew that i turned them in but for some reason the teacher didnt have it/ couldnt find them and was convinced that i didnt turn them in. My next move is something i truely regret. I went up to one of my friends in class that day, who i worked with in partners for both of these assigments, and asked if i could use her paper that we worked on (because we had the same anwsers) and she said yes. I then ended up impulsively turning in that paper without thinking and the teacher with my name and she caught me. She knew that that wasnt my handwriting and proceeded to called me out on it. She was very mad (which i totally understand) and I automadically told her the truth and apologized for what i did because this is the first time I’ve ever done something like this and I honestly knew that what i did was wrong from the beginning. I am an AP student with High A/B grades and it just kills me that i now have lost the trust of a teacher (who was originally one of my favorites). I am fully aware of how stupid it was for me to cheat and i honestly feel sick to my stomach just thinking about it. I am an overall good student and something like this has never happened to me before. I know that i can learn from this and just proceed to improve in the class but i just need some help (if there even is any) on to how i fix this problem with my teacher and what i should say to her tomorrow to maybe make her understand how much i truely regret cheating and that as an overall student, i am not like that what-so-ever.
I would suggest that you write a long apology note, as well as going up to the teacher and apologizing in person. I think this will take time but its good that you immediately owned up to it. Offer to help the teacher around the classroom after school or in your free time in order to show that you are truly sorry, offer to make up the work and just generally make sure you don’t repeat this mistake.