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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I noticed you didn’t describe the consequences for the cheating incidents.  That’s puzzling.  [/quote]

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I can give a few examples of the incidents that I know about. I don't know the punishments from before I attended TJ -- like the sophomore cheating ring was before my time. I assume that administration gave detentions or suspensions to the students found to be involved. Alternatively, they might have been sent to the TJ Honor Council which is a group of students that work with other students and teachers to positively build back the relationship marred by cheating.

When the junior this past year was caught using a camera pen, the curve (grade raise) of the physics midterm was removed for many juniors in the class, negatively affecting their grades. I believe that this student was suspended and the people he had planned on selling the pictures to were given disciplinary warnings. News of this incident spread really quickly among the school though.

A few of my close friends have been accused of cheating--they were pulled out of class silently by an administrator, who then proceeded to take them into their office and ask them for the truth. They then said that they had not cheated (which I believe to be true) and showed proof, to the suspicion of the administrator, but and all was well. I assume that most cheating cases are handled similarly, where the student in question is brought out to be talked to one-on-one by an administrator, then given a referral or worse consequences if found to be guilty of cheating.

Two years ago a someone anonymously reported to admin on Ion (TJ internet server) that a few people had found all of the answers to a take-home chemistry test on Google and had cheated by copying the answers. This was only brought to light months later, where the teacher got very angry that no one had told her directly--and again removed the curve for all those chem students, negatively affecting people not involved. She also determined that she would write no teacher recommendations for any of her students in that grade. I remember this being really, really bad for some people, especially those who had nothing to do with the incident at all--the curve was removed months after the test was graded and their grades dropped a lot, not to mention the detriment of not being able to ask for a recommendation from an AP teacher. But this does go to show how seriously cheating is taken at TJ.

I know someone who left the classroom for too long during the AMC and was given Saturday detention -- which I had never heard of existing at TJ before this.

I'm not too knowledgable about the disciplinary system at TJ, but I know that multiple referrals can eventually lead to a detention, which goes on your record. There's also suspension, which is reserved for really serious cases, and expulsion, which I haven't heard of happening.[/quote]

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