@N’s Mom (re #5): Therefore, YOU obviously condone academic dishonesty. If the GC and the teacher don’t want to make a formal issue of this unquestionable cheating, it is then okay to lie on the Common Application . . . and, in doing so, plainly to disadvantage ALL – probably, 95+ percent of the applicants – who honestly file their Common App.
Bad enough that we have a generation of students, some of whom cheat, endorse some academic dishonesty, or quasi-tolerate it. Now (based on your screen-name) we have a parent who says that the potentially unethical decisions of two so-called “educational professionals” are adequate justification to disregard a clearcut breach of academic integrity and to commit another one (not completing the Common App truthfully).
N’s Mom, I certainly appreciate mercy; HOWEVER, it has to be earned through repentance. Did you perceive even one word of remorse, contrition, or apology in the OP’s initial post? I certainly did not.
Moreover and CRITICALLY, it seems to me that you (and, potentially, the applicable GC and teacher) have entirely ignored ALL the kids who did not cheat on this exam . . . or on ANY other high school academics. If OP’s “friend” receives an “ethical pass” for unashamed academic deceitfulness (the initial post to this thread is unambiguous that a “cheat sheet” was utilized):
- What lesson does that that teach all the honest students?
- How fair is that to the all the honest students?