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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Sorry for the confusion. No I am not an AP, I was responding to the question of who told me about the rule.

Thanks for the feed backs. I want to hear your opinions and perspectives.  Please keep them coming.

I feel that my DD was not defensive enough to protect herself against something like this. But kids are kids and do things without thinking through all the possibilities.  DD said she would not have send a copy of HW to her classmate if she knew or could even imagine there is a possibility that her classmate would just copy it.  She just wanted the other kid to see how it can be done, learning the concept but not copying.  There is absolutely no benefit for DD to help, but she tried to help.

I may be at fault as well if there is such a rule and I have never heard of it.  Within the scope of cheating where A and B both intend for one of them to cheat, I can understand. But I am still struggling with the idea that B can be deemed cheating if A secretly copied B.  So is there a presumption that if B let A to see the homework, B is deemed to know that A would cheat?

I want to know what is the path forward if that is the case, should I tell my kids to never let another kid see their HW before it is due?  [b]This is different from when I was growing up when helping each other to understand the HW and may be work together was a good thing.
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If I need to adjust, I think I will.  Thanks for feed back.[/quote]

I'm the PP who asked if you were an AP.

At my school, there is time spend in the Freshmen homerooms talking about various scenarios and coaching.  The kids are taught:

Doing homework together is fine, unless a teacher has specifically asked that an assignment be done alone.  But each kid needs to work through each problem.  That is you can discuss the answers together, but you can't say "I'll do evens, you do odds".

Helping a student, by giving hints or reminding them of a strategy, or showing them where you got the information, is all OK.  Helping a student by letting them copy is not.

Studying together from completed homework, is fine.  If you've done your HW, and so is your friend, and you want to study together from the notes, that's great.

Kids are told that one option when a friend asks to see your homework, or tell them what you got on question 5 is to say "I can't show you mine, but I can help?  What are you having trouble with?"

But allowing someone to copy isn't "helping them understand" or "working together", so I'm not sure I understand the bolded.  [/quote]

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