jonnathan

People cheat so much at my school. It's a daily thing. Cheat sheets before a quiz, copying someone's test, looking up test answers, taking test copies home, asking for someone's binder who's already taken a class, it all happens. There's like one person in my AP Chem class who did the work on our first test and then passed it around to like 10 other people.

PippaKarenina

I'm not quite sure if it's extremely common in my school but I have seen a few cases of it. Mostly students using their cell phones to Google up answers. I'm not sure if group work counts as cheating though. As said before in previous posts, some schools do encourage teamwork. In some cases at least. Still, it is frustrating when someone who cheated gets a higher score than you.

This might sound strange but this reminds of that one episode in South Park when they parody the film "Stand and Deliver". The one in which Cartman teaches a class of students how to cheat in order to succeed in life.

nickb14

Well, as discussed earlier in the thread, there's many definitions and interpretations of cheating. In our school, copying homework is not a big deal at all and is almost never caught by teachers. I'm mainly in honors and AP classes and when we copy each other's work we're smart enough to put it in our own words and such.

When it comes to cheating on tests, it depends on the class: vocabulary tests and reading checks in all English courses are consistently cheated on due to the ditziness of many of the teachers. I don't cheat on tests because I don't believe I get any benefit out of it. I occasionally will copy homework because it's usually busy work with no real value and I'd rather not have a 0 in the books. I'm not trying to justify it in any way, it's not right, but it's just the way things work in my school hahaha

As for punishments, cheating is rarely caught but when it is, the test/homework is simply ripped up and the person is given a 0. If this is consistent, they'll get in administrative trouble.

starling1536

My school basically smacks us in the face with all the repercussions of getting caught cheating in any class. But apparently one kid who was caught plagiarizing a paper was later given an "Integrity Award" and is now on a full ride to a top university. -_- Somehow this doesn't strike me as particularly fair...Oh well, c'est la vie.

megz4252

Cheating is a problem at my school but only in the classes with the "bad" teachers. When students feel that the teacher has not done his job, they see it as only fair that they cheat to make up for it. It bothers me to watch dumb kids succeed, but whatever unless it causes me to loose my position at #1.

CSIHSIS

I don't think my school has a problem at all. Though, most of the kids don't care about school enough to bother.

emohlee12345

The vice president and secretary of the National Honor Society(I am in NHS too) in my school took pictures of history and chemistry tests on their phones and texted it to all their friends. They do this regularly. It makes me so mad.

Descuff

I got to be honest the most cheating classes we're languages classes... Even I cheated because I need to spell each words perfectly. Not saying I cheat all the time just when I know I ain't doing well. But no problem in other classes

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Indiansoup

It got really bad at my school. A group of 30 or seniors (class of 2012) had a cheating ring going on, where they would trade test banks for various AP Classes. One day, one of the members of the group was ratted out, and was forced to leak the contents of the group to the school administration. The creator of the group, a person who had graduated Summa cum Laude(4.5+ GPA) almost had his college acceptance rescinded. Did i forget to mention he got into Harvard for Economics? There were also a couple of Northwestern'ers, an NYU Stern, a UChicago, a UPenn, and a bajillion UMich'ers who all almost got their college acceptances rescinded. When i say "almost" i mean the Vice Principle in charge of Curriculum was like "rescind the fools. make an example" but the head principle was like "woah woah woah. no. if we have to tell ivy league schools that the kids cheated its going to look terrible on us. and the district will probably launch an investigation into the school." - which is why they got their asses saved.

StraferKev

I go to a really strict school and in my school you can actually automatically fail a marking period if you're caught cheating. On a bright side, my school is pretty collaborative and there normally isn't much reason to do severe cheating. I've had people share and trade answers with each other but even then the students work together to understand how they got each answer. I'd say the biggest form of cheating at my school may be using SparkNotes, but that's about it.

Etuck24

Lets just say there's a lot of kids in our "national honors society" that aren't too honorable.

IndigoPlateau

My school has a one-strike policy for cheating, it's actually pretty crazy. Every year 3-4 people get kicked out anyway but cheating really isn't much of a problem except in classes where the teachers just don't pay any attentions.

barrk123

When people I didn't like tried to copy off my tests I used to put down the wrong answers (later erase them) and they'd fail hard

CE527M

^ NICE

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wjdrk7

Two girls in my school were caught cheating by the principal himself a few days ago. They received a 1 day in-school suspension, which I honestly think was quite... lenient.