<p>Hi, I’m a sophomore in APUSH I (My school divides it into sophomore and junior year). A lot (1/3 ish) of the class is cheating frequently.
I’ve seen/heard them…
-Print outlines from the Internet.
-Find old DBQs from shoddy websites, type it up at home the night before and use flash drives to print it out.
-Cheat off each other (with a seating pattern so they’re all adjacent to each other during tests and quizzes)
-Divide answers for busywork </p>
<p>The only proof I have is conversations, though. I’m pretty sure their flash drives have some evidence, but they probably erase everything ASAP. If I would tell a teacher or guidance counselor, it’s not like they’d listen to me. And I have a B- right now and they have As so they’d think I’m some bitter liar if I have no proof.
I dislike this group of students. I mean, asking someone to explain a question is okay if you do your own work, but I’m talking about not doing any work for years, and planning on going into Ivy League. They dislike a Hispanic girl in my class because she ‘has a greater chance of being accepted into colleges than [they] do’. These are the kinds of jerks you read about on these forums, who are willing to harm their friends so they could get higher GPAs and better college futures.
I want to ask my guidance counselor how I could deal with them, but I want to make sure I stay anonymous. I could use Facebook screenshots of them saying… unflattering things about the teacher, so I could ‘accidentally’ drop them near his desk or in his teacher mailbox or something.
What should I do?</p>
<p>Lol, look for the outlines that they print out on line & print a copy with the website and what not, write at the top, “compare these to half of the kids from so and so period class” in a different looking handwriting… Leave it in the mail box and papowww</p>
<p>I’ve considered cheating to be honest, but I can’t live with the guilt and with my luck, I’d be the first one to be punished. So yeah.
Lmao nice, SharonSUNY. I might try that with the next outline. One of the cheaters brags(?!?) that he just changes the first page of writing because ‘that’s all the teacher looks for’, so what if he just looks at the first page for those? </p>
<p>I’m gonna jot down all of their convos from now on. It could form a great picture <em>roll eyes</em>.</p>
<p>Edit: Prude? Why? I said it’s okay for ’ asking someone to explain a question is okay if you do your own work, but I’m talking about not doing any work for years, and planning on going into Ivy League’. So, wanting honesty in an AP class makes me a prude? Good to know.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher is sooo chill. I had it last year as the only sophomore (in our school’s history)</p>
<p>There’s a website that she co-created that contains all the packets that we do, along with filled in answers of course. For DBQ’s no one gets less than a 3 unless it’s all BS. Tests are a class effort. </p>
<p>All of our work is due “the next day” which means at the end of the semester. If you don’t finish your work at the end of the quarter, just take an incomplete, she’ll change it for you later. </p>
<p>For our final exam, we take the AP test (instant 100%), if you don’t, you have to take one of her finals. Funny thing is, 98% of the classes get a “3” or better, of that 98%, 40% gets 4’s and 5’s.</p>
One of the cheaters brags(?!?) that he just changes the first page of writing because ‘that’s all the teacher looks for’, so what if he just looks at the first page for those? </p>