<p>^That could be a good move depending on the extent of the cheating. It’s also pretty fail safe as long as you email anonymously.</p>
<p>Do whatever you can to report the scumbag cheater. Cheaters hurt every HONEST person. They take up slots (ie college, job, etc…) that should have gone to an honest person.</p>
<p>Normally I wouldn’t care - it’s his loss if he never learns how to learn - but if my class rank, score on a curved test, etc. was marginally lower because of it, yeah, I’d speak up.</p>
<p>Don’t be an idiot. It’s none of your business what anyone in school does.
Do you and mind your own business.</p>
<p>Report him. There’s no such thing as Karma.
There were a lot of people who have cheated at the SAT in the local test center (not in the USA). Now all of them study in the USA and I who didn’t cheat (though I still had higher scores) don’t study in the USA.
So, I would definitely report him. He may as well take your place at the university you would like to study at. And of course, he will definitely get some other student’s place at some university since he’s on the top of the class.</p>
<p>@Arthur13: Actually, things other people do can easily become your business, especially with cheating. If this kid is around the calendarfeb1 all the time, and he gets caught, then calendarfeb1 could get in trouble too (I have no clue if he is - I was just using that as an example). It can definitely become concerning if other people’s business begins affecting your own future.</p>
<p>Oh, and the other thing I wanted to say was that not all cheaters will fail if they do not cheat later in life. There are many cheaters out there who will still get As if they do not cheat; they just want to be better than everyone else. They would do anything to get the A+ instead of the A. So no, cheaters will not necessarily fail later in life because a lot of them are actually intelligent and really have no reason to cheat at all.</p>
<p>Yeah, it effects him if it changes his class rank, curves on tests, etc. if he has been doing it this long and has never been caught, there is no reason to believe they ever will get caught while in high school, because they’re so good at now. That is, unless people get too fed up and report them.</p>
<p>If the teachers do not care, go above them to the guidance councilor or the principal, and if necessary, explain the teacher’s actions as well.
I was in a similar situation. I know how frustrating it is when you spent hours studying and got a lower grade than the idiot cheating. </p>
<p>If you choose not to act, don’t worry. When he gets ready to take the actual APs and ACT/SAT there will be increased security and more proctors. The chances of him getting away with it are low.</p>
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<p>^ Cheater.</p>
<p>OP, do everything in your power to take this loser down.</p>
<p>SStidham: You are right that there will be increased security at the AP, ACT and SAT test centers, but that does not mean the cheater is not intelligent enough to do well on those kinds of exams without cheating. Like I said in my previous posts, cheaters are often the ones that want to have the edge over everyone else, the A+ over the A. </p>
<p>That is the most annoying part of it all - cheaters are actually intelligent. One can’t say that the only motivation for someone to cheat is that he/she is doing poorly in his/her classes; that simply is not true. Don’t get me wrong, some cheaters cheat because they aren’t doing so well in a class. But others are afraid of getting even a single problem wrong on one of their tests, as if that question will determine their fates.</p>
<p>There is a girl at my college who is always sweet talking guys into getting old tests for teachers that they once had so she can know what to expect on the tests. It is how she passed calculus. It is really discouraging because so many people put countless hours into getting the subject down but she is sweet talking her way to a higher grade. It is cheating but probably not by the college’s standards.</p>
<p>^Actually it might be considered cheating based on the college’s standards. Definitely if the tests are the same year to year.When you look at it, she is using a resource that no one else has.</p>
<p>If the tests aren’t the same year to year, there is probably nothing anyone can do b/c the whole point of the professor making different tests from year to year is to avoid the cheating you described.</p>
<p>OP, if you believe you are doing the right thing for the right reason, you have no reason to hide behind an anonymous letter. Why such a cowardly move? You should talk to the student before you decide it’s your job to report something you don’t have any real evidence of. The ethical thing to do is to tell him what you believe about his actions, and that you believe it’s affecting other students and suggest he turn himself in or you will be forced to. If you can’t confront him in person you probably don’t have an honest reason for turning him in. It also seems that if this guy is really cheating to the extent you believe he is and affecting everyone’s grade, then everyone in your calc class will be on the same page with you, and will want to go to the teacher if the student doesn’t turn himself in.
Btw anonymous “tips” or accusations against others are rarely taken seriously unless your life is in jeopardy for speaking out!</p>
<p>The kid’s in high school, so I’m going to say this and be blunt about it: I’m sure the administration either knows, doesn’t care or just wants him to graduate. Heck, I’m sure there are kids doing much worse things in your school that still manage to stay in school. The reason for this is because if you’ve ratted him out already and it hasn’t done anything, Teachers will not want to deal with him (or any student) for more than two years in a row.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this is the attitude that most institutions (many of whom are public) have adapted when it comes to students who seem, well, shall we say, troubled… Since most schools know and anticipate that students aren’t going to graduate 100 prepared for college, they try to just push them out anyway. If a student is held back, it makes the school look worse. And yes, this kind of attitude even includes for AP classes that you take in HS, where in my experience, this kind of attitude occurs even more frequently. The reality is that most schools treat AP class as just a guarantee that you will have Advanced placement for general liberal art qualifications, depending on the degree, but how the curriculum is taught depends on the teacher. Your mileage may vary, etc</p>
<p>As for whether he’ll get caught, if he manages to make it to college and still pull this off before he gets caught, I doubt it, he’s seasoned at what he does and knows how to avoid making it obvious (or at least obvious enough that the right people don’t see him, as you and some others clearly have…). If you’re upset that some kid is able to get away with this in High School, you don’t even want to know what people are getting away with in Higher learning. Hell, there are people who plagiarize their dissertations for pHDs. The reality is that it’s an indication of a bigger problem that people have to resort to cheating. The truth is, I doubt you’ll know what’ll become of him anyway and it doesn’t really matter. But it’s in your best interest to stay out of it, like others have suggested.</p>
<p>just let him do his thing…Nature cannot be tricked</p>
<p>I would suggest that if the teacher doesn’t respond, talk to your guidance counselor. Say you know that of course they aren’t going to do anything based on your word, but what you are really after is for them to watch him more closely and change policies (everyone has to put their phone up on the teacher’s desk during a test) or change tests around (don’t give take home tests, put two version of the test out so people can’t copy, etc)</p>
<p>It’s not that easy to detect cheaters, especially if a teacher is alone watching 25 kids. </p>
<p>But you mentioned “college credit” - do you mean that he did or will cheat on an actual AP exam? That is the business of the College Board, not your high school.</p>
<p>In college, if he is caught he will be suspended or expelled, in addition to failing the course. If he isn’t caught, that would be amazing because cheating/attempting to cheat is so rampant in college they have a lot of procedures in place to minimize cheating.</p>
<p>That guy isn’t learning. He just wants to get good grades. Grades are useless until and unless you learn something. That is the whole point of it right? Schools were made so that children would learn. Since he is not learning at all it’s his loss.</p>
<p>He might score good grades and feel happy but in the wrong run, it’s only the hardwork that pays off. </p>
<p>“He might have scored the point, but he’s most probably lost the match”</p>
<p>^^^I like that “He might have scored the point, but he’s most probably lost the match.” Realize a few things:</p>
<p>–the cheater really is insecure and underachieving, and he knows it–because he knows that he could not do well without cheating.</p>
<p>–the cheater is really shortsighted. Sure, he might get into a “prestigious” college–but then he is going to be confronted with a whole campus full of high achievers who didn’t need to cheat to get there–so they will be way ahead of him. He will have lots of fun in college chemistry or calculus classes, where the other students actually know the material, and actually have learned to study appropriately for the class.</p>
<p>CC sounds like the ghetto mentality of “no snitchin” in this thread. Makes me think many of you are cheaters. I’d do everything I could to expose this fraud.</p>
<p>I’d find out where he is applying and give the admissions his name and cheating ways. If nothing else, they will increase the scrutiny of his application. They may not be able to prove he cheated on exams, but they can look into his ECs and see if he embellished anything. They would probably contact the school as well. Elite schools want authentic students. If a high school is ENABLING cheating, which it sounds like they are, then those elite colleges could say they’re not going to take kids from there at all, or with less frequency.</p>