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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, are you saying that teachers do not change their tests from year to year? That would seem very unfair for kids that do not have siblings at TJ. Teachers definitely should release their old tests for students to practice, and they should come up with new ones every year to even out the playing field.[/quote]

Stop making it the teacher's fault when a kid cheats. Sorry, I keep hearing that as an excuse, and it just doesn't hold water. What about teaching kids integrity and honesty, even when someone offers them test questions from a previous year?

A lot of classes do not lend themselves to writing a completely new test every year.  Isn't better to teach kids not to cheat than to tell them that it's the teacher's fault for not creating an entirely new test, even when that is not possible?

Let's not make excuses for kids who are doing wrong. Let's teach them to grow to be adults who are honourable and have integrity, even when (especially when) it would be easy and beneficial to do the wrong thing. 
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I never said it was the teachers fault. I just think that for classes like math or physics teachers can definitely give different tests every year and let their students see the old tests so they know what kind of problems they can expect. At my college, professors keep their old tests at the library. Any student can check them out and use them as practice. We all knew the problems would be different on the actual test, but the old tests were good to make sure we understood the concepts being tested.[/quote]

That's fine if a teacher tells the kids to go and look at old tests, but if a teacher doesn't offer that as an option, then kids shouldn't be doing it. Period.

One of my kid's teachers at TJ once told me that students had told her that there were businesses out there that offered to pay kids for telling them as many test questions as they could remember after a test. Sorry, that is wrong, and sends the wrong message to teens. 
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