<p>Last comment before I leave because I officially got a direct reply. @lululemonxx being humane and kind has nothing to do with it. You’re not doing them any favors if you allow them to continue like this. Confession: once during a third grade spelling test, I peeked at my neighbor’s paper. My teacher caught me and reprimanded me, explaining to me the consequences and why that honor and trust was worth far more than a grade on a single test. After that day, I have never attempted to or tried to cheat, because you are not just cheating yourself (which is bad enough) you are cheating other’s trust. If they continue to do this without negative consequences, think what a bad shape they could be in the future. It won’t be tolerated in college.</p>
<p>On a side note, I completely disagree that if you report them you are not humane and emotional person. I had a good friend, she was literally the most humane and compassionate person I know. She would bake people cookies on their birthday who she barely knew, she would say hi and start a conversation to total strangers if you are having a bad day, she was the type of person you could sit there for hours and you could tell her about your problems, to anyone. Yet, she had absolutely no tolerance for cheating, which she regarded just as bad. In the situation I mentioned above, it was she who first convinced me to tell the teacher, as she was in the same class. At that time, I didn’t have the strength to. She had ADHD and struggled on every test, always trying her hardest, yet the others were cruising by and affecting the curve. (It only became harder because the teacher thought we understood the material, we clearly didn’t which is what probably triggered the cheating in the first place.) How was that fair to her? It wasn’t. She eventually broke down in tears and told the teacher ON HER BIRTHDAY NO LESS, and went on to say how she really despised cheaters, and they shouldn’t be allowed to do things like that just because people are willing to look the other way.</p>
<p>I too, before, was a bystander. But after hearing her speak in such an emotional and powerful way, made me think that I could not stand by while those others took advantage of the system and more importantly, other people. If she could be affected in that way, there were likely others like her that could be hurt. I didn’t want them to be hurt, plain and simple. So since then, I have taken a strong stance against cheating.</p>
<p>You gotta look at things from multiple perspectives. Sure you may be “compassionate” and “humane” to the cheater, but there are real people out there that are being hurt, that don’t deserve to be.</p>