Cheating

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Have you ever been in a situation where you discover that one of your friends or classmates is cheating off your test? If you have, then you know what a pain it can be to get them to stop cheating without making a ruckus. If this has never happened to you then consider yourself lucky, but it probably will soon. Imagine you’re in class and somebody is copying your answers on a really big test that’s a huge chunk of your final grade. You immediately know they shouldn’t be copying, but don’t want to make a show out of it. So you start to brain-storm some ways to make it so they can’t cheat anymore. Some solutions that run through your head are telling them to stop, moving your paper away from them and covering your answers, and getting up and going to tell the teacher or whoever is in charge. These are all good ideas, but you want to think about them more in depth, so here we go.
The first solution is to tell them to stop cheating off your paper. You could tell them things like “I really don’t know if these answers are right, so if I were you I wouldn’t be cheating off my paper.”
I would say this solution is probably not your best because you would have to talk and you aren’t allowed to talk during tests. On the other hand, they will most likely listen to you and stop cheating off your paper. This could be a great solution for you because you would never get in trouble, and as long as you are not in trouble everything’s good. Right? Wrong. If your classmate stops cheating off your paper, and didn’t study for the test then they will probably just look over at somebody else's paper. Well then it’s their problem you would think, but soon it will be a everybody’s problem and not just yours. Now, that you think about it maybe you should ...

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...ght thing to do and you won’t get in trouble, so you keep going. When your classmate is told by the teacher that they need to hand in your test early you can’t help, but keep from smiling because your plan worked. Now that you realize this was by far your best solution you start to recap what solutions had flaws in them.
All in all, I believe that the third solution where you tell your teacher about the cheater is the best because you never even have the chance of getting in trouble unlike solution number one (telling them to stop) and you didn’t have to deal with the hassle of shifting your paper around like solution number two (moving your paper away and covering up your answers). Finally, solution number three is definitely the best because the person stops cheating and gets in trouble while the teacher will probably thank you for telling them about the cheater.

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