By chinaski7628 - 15/02/2014 07:11 - United States - Glendale

Today, I was grading work my students had done with a sub. I realized one student had gotten hold of the teachers' edition of the textbook when I read ten papers in a row that had "Student answers may vary" as the answer to problem number four. My students can't even cheat properly. FML
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chinaski7628 32

Op here. As most teachers will tell you, kids cheat all the time and badly, too. I usually write my own tests and worksheets and only write up answer keys when I need them, which does cut down on cheating. I didn't even realize I had a teacher's edition of the textbook until I came across those answers. On that day I had a family emergency and figured book work practice for an upcoming test would be fine. I did talk to the students involved and their parents. Unfortunately, several of the kids involved are habitual truants and failing my class anyway, so suspension, detention and a zero on the assignment don't mean much to them. A few of the kids involved, though they struggle, do come to class everyday and try, they just made a stupid decision. After a long (and embarrassing for them) talk with me, they (hopefully) have learned a lesson about cheating and blindly following others.

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cyanidesandwich 21

Should write "Teacher grades may vary. See me after class" on all those that attempted to cheat but failed miserably.

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746278Ab 14

Sucks for them! I hope you suspended them or gave them a grade they deserved.

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cryssycakesx3 22

after explaining the consequences, she should tell them she'll give leniency to who ever comes forward, privately of course. she can at least see who'll be honest about it.

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brandoneyez1 25

Use this as a lesson to the students. I'm sure you can create a great lesson if it out of a day in class which would be better and positive.

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Witchylady 17

Today's youth are so stupid, lazy and so self obsessed. Most only have half a brain to begin with cause they are so wrapped up on themselves and their "selfies" that they are too self involved to remove their heads out of their asses and actually study. It seems the future of the world is in the hands of morons.

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squideth 18

Wow you packed an assload of self-superiority into one comment, congrats! Every ******* generation sucks, get the **** over it.

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DanceJunkie98 4

Yeah, and look what generations raised, influenced, and shaped ours! Obviously, you are all damned good examples. And you can't judge an entire group of people based off of a small portion of the generation. Seriously? And what does being "self absorbed" and taking selfies have to do with cheating? It is completely unrelated to the previous topic. And by the way, I love your nickname, "Witchylady". It suits you, and your judgmental arrogance.

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chinaski7628 32

Your generation is fine. If people didn't make stupid mistakes they wouldn't learn and grow from them.

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ShalalaLynn 8

I used to have kids try to cheat off me in english. They would try and write what I said on questions like "What do you think the story is about" so instead of telling I would just be like, you cannot put what I put and then help them the best i could so that way they could atleast try and use their brain.

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chinaski7628 32

Op here. As most teachers will tell you, kids cheat all the time and badly, too. I usually write my own tests and worksheets and only write up answer keys when I need them, which does cut down on cheating. I didn't even realize I had a teacher's edition of the textbook until I came across those answers. On that day I had a family emergency and figured book work practice for an upcoming test would be fine. I did talk to the students involved and their parents. Unfortunately, several of the kids involved are habitual truants and failing my class anyway, so suspension, detention and a zero on the assignment don't mean much to them. A few of the kids involved, though they struggle, do come to class everyday and try, they just made a stupid decision. After a long (and embarrassing for them) talk with me, they (hopefully) have learned a lesson about cheating and blindly following others.

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frizz101 22

You sound like a good teacher OP, not to many around anymore (from my experience) keep up the good work.

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whyisitme12 19

No offense and all, but am I'm the only person who hates when teachers leave work for subs, especially when they leave tons. Like on a regular will do like a packet, when a sub comes it's like 5 packets, 3 pages out the book and board work, WHY???

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ThatFancyPenn 18

Most of the time is because they just want you to shut up. At least that's what my teachers told me.

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chinaski7628 32

#98-- teachers do that so that students don't screw around in class with the sub there or pull nonsense like this. #102-- that was the scary part to me as well-- that out of ten people, not one of them thought to question the answer. At least most of them were (rightly) ashamed of their stupidity.

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Lang88 13

Make them watch an educational math video that will put them to tears of boredom. And make them think twice

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sabrinalynn22 19

OP, how old are the students you teach? Because if they are younger, then it is more understandable. However if these are high school students...we have a problem.

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dswomi 12

#116, I recently graduated. My last year, I was a student assistant for my chemistry teacher. I'm sorry to say that high school students ARE that stupid. If my classes are any indication, about 10%

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chinaski7628 32

It was fairly obvious to tell who had been cheating. No need for an elaborate sting operation.

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yourmother94 1

Haha Haha Haha Haha(: this made my day worth living.

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