<p>I would. I'm not about to let some kids get away for cheating after I paid the same tuition for my hard work.</p>
<p>What about you? Since you're all tuition-paying students (or at least about to be), would you let someone get away with cheating?</p>
<p>What if it was an entire class that cheated? Doesn't matter if it's a small liberal arts college with a tiny class to a huge public state college with 100+ students.</p>
<p>No. Because what would I get out of it? Yup, nothing.</p>
<p>I will even let my neighbor cheat off me on the test, and still have no problems with it.</p>
<p>Yes, but I would tell the professor during office hours, over email, or by phone so the cheaters won’t know who ratted them out.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t. Nothing is going to change the fact that they will continue to cheat</p>
<p>If the class were graded on a curve and my own grade was suffering as a result, then yes.</p>
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<p>When I was in middle school, I would have done it.</p>
<p>Now I don’t care at all. It’s not the student’s fault if he would probably learn better under some other system, and has to cheat to get through what he’s required to do (when he would prefer to go under the other system). We now have the technology to make people choose their own system of learning</p>
<p>I would have said something because that person is wasting a spot that honest hard working applicants might have been clamoring for.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not going to rat ppl out since I know that higher education is really a sham for a lot of people.</p>
<p>Yes, because I’m not going to let someone just “use” me to their advantage.</p>
<p>nope, I don’t see the point in ratting them out so I wouldn’t.</p>
<p>Ugh, I’ve only ever reported cheating once, and it didn’t turn out well.
In fact, I technically didn’t even report it.
My Mandarin teacher was a little bit…well, I don’t know which word to use…‘floaty’? A lot of the kids in my class took advantage of her and cheated their way through class. I think it got to the point where they no longer realized they were cheating because the teacher absolutely had no idea what she was doing.
So at the end of the year we had one of those anonymous review sheets where we say what we liked about the class, what we didn’t like, etc. And since I thought nobody would see it, I complained about how so many people took advantage of the teacher and other hardworking students by cheating and being disrespectful. For a split second I even considered dropping names just to make myself feel better, but I’m so glad I didn’t.
Anyway, I assumed that it would go wherever the other anonymous review forms went and that I’d found a way to safely get that off my chest…but then my teacher decided to READ THEM ALL OUT LOUD.
Everybody knew it was me because they all went up to look at it and they recognized my handwriting. They didn’t seem to care when someone ended up writing about how awful the teacher was and how her teaching style sucked…they only cared when someone rightfully accused them of cheating their way through class.</p>
<p>Now I’ll be in the honors class next year with a bunch of boneheads. I’ll never report cheating ever again. If they don’t want to be responsible, fine by me. They’ll get their reward once they graduate, major in Biology or whatever, and then not remember a darn thing they learned in class.</p>
<p>I agree with chicken1992…from personal experience, those kids are wasting a spot that could have otherwise been used by deserving kids.</p>
<p>And if they get caught, wouldn’t that stop them anyways? My old college had a zero tolerance policy and once you cheated, there was no “three strikes youre out” rule. It was one and if you used it then you blew it. They can cheat at their other college but for the one I’m paying for, hell no.</p>
<p>I’ve only reported cheating once- and only because it directly affected me.</p>
<p>There were two kids sitting directly behind me during an exam, whispering throughout the entire test. Had it not annoyed the crap out of me (and distracted me from my own work), I wouldn’t have said anything.</p>
<p>Annoyingly enough, the professor didn’t do anything and they literally got the two highest scores on the exam. </p>
<p>What did I learn? Sit somewhere else.</p>
<p>I sit in the front row, where there’s little opportunity for someone to cheat off me. Sitting there, I don’t see other people cheating either. Honestly, if it doesn’t directly affect me, I don’t see how it’s my place to report them. They’ll get what they deserve without my interference.</p>
<p>TBH, I wouldn’t say anything if it didn’t affect me or anyone else significantly. There are those lazy people who cheat and still get a C. Those I don’t care.</p>
<p>If the person is going crazy and getting A’s, then I’ll say something.
I would hint to the person to stop. You can always have a “friendly” conversation. Not sure how that would work in real life…</p>
<p>Then I’d write an anonymous note to the teacher.
like type a note on plain printer paper so there’s no arrow pointing at me.</p>
<p>Minor infractions, I will mind my own business. However, if I was aware of someone cheating big time (e.g. getting papers written by someone else, or posting exam questions on homework help forums online - most of our exams are of the take-home variety), I would confront them about it and consider notifying the professor.</p>
<p>only if i was in deep **** and it would put me ahead in the curve</p>
<p>No. Never. Because it doesn’t matter. I mind my own business. It’s social suicide for one thing. Another thing, is that not even your mother will like the fact that you tattled on someone. Lastly, there is no personal gain, so I don’t want to waste even a word ratting someone out. If an entire class is being graded on a curve, that’s one person and I would probably get a similar score that won’t affect my term grade in a dramatic way (at the worst A- to B+).</p>
<p>To take it a step further, if the entire class is cheating (and I mean every single person in the room), I’ll likely cheat with everyone to make it fair.</p>
<p>lol, this thread certainly shows that snitches really do tend to be somewhat uptight (not that it’s a bad thing)</p>
<p>Yes, I put in the work to study, so why should they get a free pass?</p>