Re: CHEATING IN SCHOOL

Posted by Hal (WA) on March 08, 2008 at 20:29:31 from (66.45.175.118):

In Reply to: CHEATING IN SCHOOL posted by Nat on March 08, 2008 at 11:42:35:

What do you mean by cheating? I helped friends occasionally with schoolwork, and even helped one of my buddies by sitting in such a way that he could see my test paper and copy from it. This was in a class my friend just plain couldn't have ever passed without help. It kept him eligible for playing football, which was about the only thing in life he really cared about. He probably would have dropped out of high school if he couldn't have played football. We never got caught and eventually, James got a high school diploma.

I was always a good student and school was easy for me. But I hated to waste my time on "busy work", like having to do 100 math problems, when I had mastered the concept by doing 10. So sometimes I copied the answers from someone else's paper. I suppose that was cheating, but I didn't feel a bit bad about it. I still think that "busy work" is dumb and hated classes that required that daily homework be turned in.

My Mom was a teacher in the school where I went, so I had to behave myself pretty well, since I did not want to embarrass her. My Dad was also the local Deputy Sheriff, so I didn't want to cause him grief. Doing so would NOT have been in my best interest!

In Junior High, our History teacher was also the school principal. He had a habit of leaving his teaching materials in his unlocked office, including his tests. Over time, some of the kids figured out that they could sneak into the office and get the answers to the test the teacher would give that afternoon. This went on for awhile, and all the students knew about it. I always declined to be involved, since I was worried about getting caught and also because I did just fine in History without cheating. Then one day, we were going to have a big test, like a midterm or final test. The stolen answers went around, and I saw the sheet, but again said I would not participate in cheating on the test.

Soon after the teacher passed out the test, I realized that the questions on the test paper were not the ones that corresponded to the stolen answers. I looked around and saw that a few other kids in the class were acting very worried, but most were just filling out answers as usual. I worked through the test and turned it in at the end of class. It had been a hard test, but I knew the material pretty well and thought I did OK.

The next day the teacher passed out the corrected tests. More than half of the class got extremely low scores, and a bunch of them had exactly the same answers on the multiple guess parts of the test. We spent the rest of that day being lectured on cheating, and I think that the kids who had so obviously cheated had to meet with the teacher and their parents about the problem.

I wasn't the only one who figured out that it wasn't the test that had been expected. As it happened, the guy who actually had stolen the answers managed to get a fairly decent grade, since he had done some studying. Nobody snitched him off though.

I got an A on the test, as did several other kids. I was surprised that a couple of the kids that usually did very well had been among the ones that got caught with the absolutely wrong answers-- I thought they were lots smarter than that!

Anyway that really shut down the cheating on tests that year. And I gained new respect for the teacher, who must have known what was going on for awhile before he laid the trap.

I think there will always be some cheating in school. But a teacher that is doing their job should be able to deal with it, at least during testing. It is also important for the school administration to deal harshly with students that get caught cheating and for the parents to back the school up.

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