<p>I have noticed cheating is a HUGE problem at my school, and what makes me mad is that those people almost never get caught, or they get away with it. I would have to say about 70% of the top 20 people are big cheaters, some have hacked into teachers' accounts, have test banks, or openly discuss and tell answers to each other. Sometimes, I like to ask "how was the test?" and I only expect an "easy" or a "hard." These people tend to ignore me and are careful in giving out information to me, yet I just heard them announce the answers to another "cheater friend." It makes me so mad since I actually work hard for my grades. These people who cheat are not even stupid, yet they still cheat on a consistent basis (well I've seen some of the cheaters fail tests, which is sad since they cheated anyways). I guess it's because they are smart, but can't handle a load of AP classes, so cheat in order to look impressive. What is even more sad is that most of the cheaters are Asians (especially Koreans, no offense) and I think it might be a parental/cultural issue. I've tried filing a report form at my school, but I guess nothing happened. I would like to see something be done at my school about this.</p>
<p>I just wanted to know if other schools were even similar to mine.</p>
<p>anyways, YES, this happens at my school, too. &, ironically, we are well-known in the area for our high-achieving students. but it’s all such BS. i mean, other than some expected C/D/F students cheating, some of the most high-achieving kids in our grade cheat. last year, in latin class, my friends & i realized that ALL of the seniors had cheat-sheets for every test/quiz & would actually confer via whispers with one another DURING the test. including the president of the FREAKING nhs. like, WTH. it makes me so mad when teachers are oblivious or just seem to ignore it all together :</p>
<p>^ EXACTLY as you said. I’ve heard some people trade calculators with answers typed on the screen during physics test, since like everyone has the TI-84 plus at my school…I also remember a freshman class where we all talked OUT LOUD during quizzes and test because the teacher was busy helping other students.</p>
<p>^People do that at my school. They make a “program” but in the program’s coding they have a cheat sheet. So they can go to “edit program” and read all the info. In fact, one of the math teachers TAUGHT people how to use their TI’s to cheat.</p>
<p>People don’t cheat as much on tests, but when they do it’s inventive (writing the answers on the bottoms of their socks and sitting cross-legged with no shoes on so their sock faces up). They cheat much more on homework. Whenever we have study guides or worksheets, people go to their friends in the grade above. People have asked me for World History study guides, and this one girl begged me every day last year for my grammar book so she could take it into her class as her homework.</p>
<p>But then, to me it depends on the degree of cheating. I don’t consider copying a friend’s homework or asking them for 1 answer on a scantron “cheating”. But if it’s something like taking a photo of the test bank, or stealing the test itself, then I consider it cheating. I’ve seen alot of the first and have learned to ignore it/go with it. As for the second, I don’t like those people. I understand that it makes you angry, but to be honest, one written statement from one student isn’t going to do anything. If you’re complaining about the second, then yes I think you can bust the dude if you really want to that badly. If you’re talking about the first, then there’s absolutely no way you can stop that because it’s just too widespread.</p>
<p>I think it also might be in part of the teachers having no control. In freshman year, my geometry class was simply out of control, there were many juniors and seniors who didn’t give a care at all and just disrupted things. One went as far as to go to the bathroom during class, call our teacher’s school phone during a lesson, and prank call her that her son had been killed in a car accident. Back to the original thing about cheating though, she simply didn’t enforce it. Her philosophy on tests were that you took it one day, then the next day corrected it for full credit back, then wouldn’t let you turn it in unless you had every problem (even the bonus) correct. She spent so much time helping students during this process that she just didn’t bother to crack down on most everyone going around and getting answers from the smarter students. I recall that two of my friends ended up with a 95%, despite not turning in a single completion-based homework assignment and getting a 48% on the final.</p>
<p>Moral of the story though, is that sometimes teachers bring it upon themselves. I that teacher’s methods ended up working though, I ended up in the 95th percentile for geometry in the PLAN, much to my suprise, math is my worst subject.</p>
<p>However, students are responsible for being dishonest as well. One thing if you ask your friend if a certain question is on the test when they already took it the hour before, another if people do the things that have already been mentioned.</p>
<p>I don’t care at all if people copy homework, simply bc the teachers in AP classes either don’t check it at all or take it as a completion grade. I would think it would also help if my school lessened the pressure…since my school is known to be the most difficult in the area in terms of coursework, and especially grade deflation.</p>
<p>Yes, people cheat. Cheating may keep your grades up, but it won’t earn you teacher recs and it won’t get you good AP scores. It’s possibly the most short-term-minded thing you could do.</p>
<p>Homework answers are passed around like pieces of gum, and most people will accept exam answers if given to them without complaint, but the majority of the top 10% or so most definitely don’t cheat regularly as far as I know.</p>
<p>The kids who steal tests, pester for answers, and cheat regularly or usually doing it just so they can pass classes without putting in to much effort. Most of the top bracket want to ace their standardized exams, so cheating would be considered a very last ditch, for dire emergencies only, effort.</p>