Cheating in high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC is in an MCPS high school. I’ve recently discovered that many students are cheating on so many assignments and tests. I think that it began during virtual learning and is continuing now that they are in person. Having tests and assignments online makes it easy to share answers. They can easily take pictures or videos of their screens and share it.

Have other parents or teachers discovered this?

This has nothing to do with virtual learning. It has always happened. Focus on your own child. There are so many apps and online resources that its easy to look up answers.

To be clear, I am worried about my own child who I know has cheated this year. I do think having all of the tests and assignments online makes it easier to cheat, especially when they can take the tests at home and online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC is in an MCPS high school. I’ve recently discovered that many students are cheating on so many assignments and tests. I think that it began during virtual learning and is continuing now that they are in person. Having tests and assignments online makes it easy to share answers. They can easily take pictures or videos of their screens and share it.

Have other parents or teachers discovered this?

This has nothing to do with virtual learning. It has always happened. Focus on your own child. There are so many apps and online resources that its easy to look up answers.

To be clear, I am worried about my own child who I know has cheated this year. I do think having all of the tests and assignments online makes it easier to cheat, especially when they can take the tests at home and online.

The all virtual all the time people will deny it has anything to do with virtual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC is in an MCPS high school. I’ve recently discovered that many students are cheating on so many assignments and tests. I think that it began during virtual learning and is continuing now that they are in person. Having tests and assignments online makes it easy to share answers. They can easily take pictures or videos of their screens and share it.

Have other parents or teachers discovered this?

This has nothing to do with virtual learning. It has always happened. Focus on your own child. There are so many apps and online resources that its easy to look up answers.

To be clear, I am worried about my own child who I know has cheated this year. I do think having all of the tests and assignments online makes it easier to cheat, especially when they can take the tests at home and online.

Then commenting about virtual is silly. And, if the tests are at home/open book kids can just google the answers. I google to check my child's homework and I've used math apps to check the work. Deal with your own kid and stop worrying about what others are doing as you cannot control other kids behavior, just your own child's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC is in an MCPS high school. I’ve recently discovered that many students are cheating on so many assignments and tests. I think that it began during virtual learning and is continuing now that they are in person. Having tests and assignments online makes it easy to share answers. They can easily take pictures or videos of their screens and share it.

Have other parents or teachers discovered this?

This has nothing to do with virtual learning. It has always happened. Focus on your own child. There are so many apps and online resources that its easy to look up answers.

To be clear, I am worried about my own child who I know has cheated this year. I do think having all of the tests and assignments online makes it easier to cheat, especially when they can take the tests at home and online.

The all virtual all the time people will deny it has anything to do with virtual.

What does this have to do with virtual school? These students are in person cheating? The issue is the students using technology. Two different issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tell my kids the story of how my friend gave me the answers to a math test, and the teacher told the entire class the next day how we had both got the exact same WRONG answer and she knew we had copied off each other, and everyone knew I had copied off my friend, since she was usually much stronger at math.

Parental humiliation anecdotes have a way of teaching kids moral lessons in an amusing way.

You get off on this? Wow. You're really a sick, disgusting person.

Jesus lord calm down lady.

You think saying "Jesus lord" makes you righteous? You obviously aren't going to church, or if you are, you certainly aren't listening to what the pastor or priest is telling you.

Humiliate parents to teach their kids moral lessons in an amusing way? Is this what Jesus would really do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't care. The old saying "when you cheat, you only cheat yourself." Good luck explaining why your SAT scores don't match your GPA. Good luck doing well in college when you missed all the foundational stuff. Mind your business and keep moving forward.

My DD in college saw several classmates at UMD get caught for cheating. Penalties are stiff.

I agree. Worry about your own child. Everyone who cheats is only denying themselves the educational opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't care. The old saying "when you cheat, you only cheat yourself." Good luck explaining why your SAT scores don't match your GPA. Good luck doing well in college when you missed all the foundational stuff. Mind your business and keep moving forward.

My DD in college saw several classmates at UMD get caught for cheating. Penalties are stiff.

I agree. Worry about your own child. Everyone who cheats is only denying themselves the educational opportunity.

Maybe I should’ve phrased my question differently. I am worried about my own child and my own child’s education. I know my child is cheating and so are many of their classmates. The technology has made it really easy. It’s connected to last year because the teachers are still putting tests and assignments online which wasn’t done to this extent pre-Covid (I have older children as well).

It’s not really a complaint about anyone else. I am concerned and wondering if other parents and teachers are also seeing a lot of cheating.

[Anonymous]

At my daughters school, kids were cheating rampantly on map testing, so they could get higher scores. It’s ridiculous and so sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tell my kids the story of how my friend gave me the answers to a math test, and the teacher told the entire class the next day how we had both got the exact same WRONG answer and she knew we had copied off each other, and everyone knew I had copied off my friend, since she was usually much stronger at math.

Parental humiliation anecdotes have a way of teaching kids moral lessons in an amusing way.

You get off on this? Wow. You're really a sick, disgusting person.

Jesus lord calm down lady.

You think saying "Jesus lord" makes you righteous? You obviously aren't going to church, or if you are, you certainly aren't listening to what the pastor or priest is telling you.

Humiliate parents to teach their kids moral lessons in an amusing way? Is this what Jesus would really do?

Ma’am what are you talking about

[Anonymous]

The dum-dums will not make it thru the first semester of college. Large amount of money the parents will waste.

[Anonymous]

This is the product of too many students in a classroom with not enough staff.

Kids looking at their phones/taking pictures/ sending answers?? In class?? During a test? We would have been sent to the office if we so much as looked at our sleeved.

We sit in silence while the education system is worn down and worn away. What did we expect?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my daughters school, kids were cheating rampantly on map testing, so they could get higher scores. It’s ridiculous and so sad.

At my son's school kids are clicking through as quickly as possible with wring answers because they know mapntests are meaningless waste of time after a certain grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dum-dums will not make it thru the first semester of college. Large amount of money the parents will waste.

It’s very concerning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a HS teacher and it is very difficult to control. Cell phones have made the problem so much worse. Kids are texting answers to each other while in class.
Many kids don’t want to bother putting in any effort because they know they can copy off friends. It is a depressing situation which is hard to manage

How are you letting them have cell phones during an exam? If u don't want the liability to have them on the desk in front..all phones are visible on the students desk for the entire exam.

[Anonymous]

Do open book exams.