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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, there is no sophomore cheating ring. By sophomore year the kids are all taking different classes - with mixed grades in many of them - and a cheating ring organized by class year would be ineffective.

Second, the discipline received by students isn't made public by VA regulation. There is no announcement on the loudspeaker that Jimmy has been expelled for 3 days and has to take a zero on the last test, or what have you. This would also apply to any discipline issue at any school and to your child as well, should they encounter any problems. So though you say the school does nothing, you don't actually know that the school has done things. (And we've already heard vociferously at dcum that the base school parents don't want any discipline issues ejected from TJ)

Third, you aren't there to see the hallway behavior - you are just spreading rumors or hearsay.  If you are there and see something like that go report it immediately and the cell phones will be taken away, hall will be monitored etc., in real time.

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There was and continues to a sophomore cheating ring. And if you don't know about it, you either don't have a kid at TJ or pay zero attention.  Do you talk to your kid, read TJ Vents, follow Real Talk TJ and know about the assemblies they have had?  Do you get the honor code violations emails?  This has been a huge issue at the school. Either you are deeply in denial or don't have a kid there. Or you have a sophomore cheater.   And of course the sophomore kid have many of the same classes. The math department gives the same Math 4/5 test across all classes and kids are in standardized CHUM/ HUM plus Chem or AP Chem blocks.

And it isn't a rumor. My kid is the hallway between classes, and we talk about the important things at school.  And I talk to my kid's teachers and other parents whose kids are saying the exact same thing.   And as an adult, I would report this behavior. But I see why kids wouldn't. There has a nasty backlash by cheaters going on and no protection for kids who report.  Check out the TJ vent from yesterday about all the '"snakes" who hc (report honor code violation).  The kids also know that the kids caught cheating stay at the school, in the classes without their grade effected.  Or any other substantive punishment.

TJ has a real cheating problem. If you are a member of the TJ community and don't know this, then you are incredibly out of touch. TJ needs to address this problem. Not play "see no evil, hear no evil."[/quote]

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