I used my older sibling’s test to study and now my friends are calling me a chea
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Also – no one is arguing your teacher what your teacher is doing is professional or a good idea – but that doesn’t excuse what you (and potentially many others) are doing. The whole two wrongs don’t make a right thing. Just because she (or he) is making it very easy for you to cheat doesn’t mean that makes it anymore okay.
And she’s not writing in, you are, so people are addressing your behavior, not hers.
“I pushed two of my friends down the stairs (well one of them was someone I didn’t really like anyway) and now all my other friends are saying I’m a murderer. How do I make them stop saying that? Should I just shove them down the stairs too? I guess I could stop doing it, but I’m not the kind of person who wants to stop. I’ll just keep doing it and hope I don’t get caught. Merry Christmas to all! God Bless Us, Everyone!”
Yup its definitely about character. The first time was innocent but after that it was cheating. You should have a) told the teacher and b) stopped looking at your brother’s tests.
It also doesn’t matter that a third of the class has access to similar material and is using it. It’s about you and your character. The way you get your friend to stop calling you a cheater is to stop cheating.Also, how dumb are you if you made a pact with your friend not to tell anyone it was the same test and then…told people anyway? You put yourself in this situation twice, first when you cheated and second when you told.
Idk that I would tell the school, because they can be weird about cheating with zero tolerance overeaction. It would have been a no-brainer to tell after the first time, but now that you’ve kept doing it it could be bad. So just… stop doing it.
I’m not surprised that OP decided not to do the right thing, given that when she told her mother about the cheating, her reaction was to laugh it off. It doesn’t sound like ethics are this family’s strong suit.
I agree. I still think she’s justifying it as an advantage that she’s just being smart to take advantage of. No dude, you’re a cheater.
Just to clarify, I’m not going to come forth. There are many reasons for this but it’s mainly because it will cause more harm than good, not only for me but with everyone involved. There is a lot of people involved, like I said, there is a great number of students that have acquired a version or the actual test. If even one of us (those that have a test or a version) comes forth and the principal or guidance counselor or teacher finds out about everyone that’s actual “cheating”, it will be a very big deal. However, I am going to just shut up about the situation and if my friends do call me a cheater again, I won’t defend myself or anything, I’ll just acknowledge it. Once school starts again I’ll probably ask them what they would do in my situation. I don’t fear getting caught because I actually do trust my friends and they know that ratting me out is going to bring them in this too (they’ve asked questions about the test/quiz even though they’ve never seen it). This whole situation has been like this since September and nothing has really happened so I doubt anything would happen. I asked my brother if it has always been like this and he said that it has. He told me that she has been using the same tests/quizzes since she became a teacher and he heard about it when he had her as a teacher last year. My teacher has been at my school for 10+ years which means 10+ years worth of tests/quizzes have been reused. I found that interesting so I wanted to share it.
With all the advice and opinions I’ve gotten on this forum I have a different perspective on everything. So thank you all.
It would actually cause more good than harm. The teacher will be forced to stop reusing the same tests. The students will learn the material and study more vs cheating.
You’ll prove to be a person with good moral character.
Or you can hope no one ever tells anyone, who doesn’t then tell anyone because teenage friendships are never fickle. Oy vey.
Can’t wait for the update where all this has blown up in the LW’s face and they are all woe is me…
You may never got caught.
Lots of other people may be doing the same thing.
Your teacher may be a crappy teacher.
None of that negates the fact that you are cheating. None of that makes what you are doing okay, not even a little bit.
If you don’t want to come forward, none of us can make you, but for the love of God, stop using those tests. Shred them if the temptation is to great.
And the worst part: you’ll always have the doubt in the back of your mind that you’re too stupid to pass Algebra I fairly, just as you’ll realize that your parents allow you to continue cheating, because they suspect the same. It’s going to be awful, wondering if you are that stupid in addition to this amoral.
