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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is at a competitive magnet (not TJ). He is a junior and the pressure this year has really been getting to him. Last week, he had a big unit test and was caught cheating. The test was out of 50 points, and he received a zero, so obviously this is going to affect his grade a lot.

I agree that he should have gotten a zero, and he also received consequences at home. However, I really don't want him to get a B this semester since he is on track for T10s. I asked him to email the teacher about extra credit and how to raise his grade, but the teacher responded this morning saying they aren't going to allow that.

I really have no idea what to do. Should I email the teacher?[/quote]

No.

The cheating incident should be on his transcript, too. Colleges need to know about his poor character.[/quote]

My kids say that prob half the kids are cheating at school in various ways: chatbots, getting tests from friends, just openly cheating during makeup tests because proctor doesn't care, faking data in labs, etc. They're not that clandestine about it. A lot of teachers don't care. So not sure if it's the case for the OP, but the teacher may just be picking on one kid when a number of others could easily have been accused as well. [/quote]

Teachers care. The problem is teachers are outnumbered and they have limited resources.

I teach 140 students. I am no longer using laptops for any class assessment, primarily because I can’t watch 30 screens at once. So we are back to paper and pencil, and I also change the tests for each period.

It takes me an absurd amount of time to prepare this and even more time to grade 140 handwritten tests with written responses. The planning and grading have to happen at home since I have no time during the day to complete either task.

Computers make the workload more manageable, which is why many teachers prefer to run their assessments online. It cuts the workload in half, which means teachers can spend more time on their own obligations.

They aren’t being lazy. They are protecting their time and work/life balance. [/quote]

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