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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It may not even be an issue. They don’t send your child’s file to the university. Was there a suspension because of it?[/quote]

OP, you're assuming this is in your kid's record. It may not be, if the individual teacher accepted your child's confession and handled it within just that one class (giving a grade of zero, or making your kid retake the test, or whatever--what was done at that time?). I would have your teen, not you, go to that teacher and ask. I'd say go to the teacher before going to the HS counselor because if the teacher considered the matter resolved and never reported it to the school, it's over and done. I am NOT saying "hooray, your kid got away with it if the counselors never heard of it!" I'm saying that if it was a single instance, NEVER repeated, and the teacher made a choice on how to handle it--there may be no need to put this on the counseling office's radar. If your kid does indeed have this on some kind of record, then kid needs to see the counseling office and ask, as others here have noted. Knowing DCUM, someone is going to come along and say I'm condoning cheating or condoning hiding cheating, but I'm not; if the teacher handled it in some fashion that created a negative consequence for your child, that may have been the end of it.

You as the parent do need to talk to your kid about college honor codes and the fact that in college, cheating has to be reported up the chain and students can be and have been expelled for it, or thrown out of specific academic programs, etc. It is taken very, very seriously by most colleges and will brand your kid if he or she cheats in college. It can close doors to other programs like grad school admissions, too. [/quote]

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