Should i just continue cheating my way through high school? this is my last semester anyway?

Question

ok, here's the deal. i'm homeschooled, but teach myself. from K-8 grade my mom was home with me, but in 9th she started working again. 9th grade i did a lot of my work open book (as instructed by my mom). that's where you go through and do all the questions you can by yourself, but for the ones you don't know, you can look them up in your text book. in 10th grade, all my work was open book, and instead of trying on my own, i'd just skip to the looking it up part, no one ever knew. last semester, i started like i did in 10th grade, but i started sneaking the answers out of my moms teacher key books/ then i started skipping some of the readings, and just going straight to every stinkin test and quiz i copied straight out of the answer key. i have enough credits to graduate a year early, and this is my last semester of high school. i'm about 1 1/2 mo. behind in my work, but i was just wondering, should i just continue copying? i'm almost done anyway and i'm not gonna learn anything new.

Answer 1

You aren't cheating anyone but yourself. Are you going to regret cheating your way through high school? Is this something that you are proud of? I think you know that cheating your way through school isn't the way to go.

Answer 2

no. there are two reasons. first, do u really want to be a cheater? hope not.

secondly, it is a waste of time. do something useful instead,

Answer 3

you're a poster child for Homeschooling gone bad. Mommy got tired of teaching you and escaped.  Oh what fun!!!  Now she's created a liar and a cheat and who knows what else

Answer 4

You're "not gonna learn anything new?" -- Reality check. You haven't learned anything, period. Except how to cheat.

Figure out what you want to do with your life, the kind of person you want to be. If it is a cheater, sure continue. If not, start doing the hard work and make something truly valuable of yourself.

Answer 5

You're only hurting yourself, it's like crack... the more you do it, the more you'll continue to do it.

So decide now... do you want to be addicted to cheating?

Answer 6

I feel sorry for you. The only thing you know is how to cheat.  I have granddaughters, your age, and if the only thing that they had learn in their life was how to cheat. I would take my son, and shake some sense into him.

You need to #1, stop cheating.... Test yourself, see if you can answer any of the test questions, correctly.  If not learn how to correct them, research and find what someone else answer them. (Without cheating) You might surprise yourself and know the answers. Ask, the chat room, what another way someone else might say. Discuss, the answers, other opinions might be different than what you think.

Then, decide what you want from life?  Get more education, help other people, do crafts, write, sing, etc. There is a future out there for you. Would you like to tell your children, the only thing you have learned is to cheat? Talk to your parents, tell them what you are doing.  Ask them to help you correct your mistake? Ask them to help you find out what is out in this world? You need to learn what is outside of this little circle you have made for yourself.  There are many wonderful things, to see, to hear, to feel, and to believe in, out in this world. Yes, there are many bad things also. You have to be able to tell the difference between them.   Learn how to accept the good things and the not so good. Most of all, you need to know how to protect yourself, your parents are not going to be  there for all your life.

You need to think, feel, believe in or not,  for yourself.

Answer 7

Your mom put a lot of trust in you for her to allow you to school yourself.  I'm sure she would have stayed home with you if she could have, or she probably thought you had enough integrity to do the work as she instructed you to do it.

You know that you should stop cheating, and you should stop immediately.  You should let your mom know what you have been doing, and you should review as much work as possible--going back to 10th grade--when you began cheating.  This may take you an extra semester, but it will be well worth it.

If you don't take the time to learn what you cheated on, glossed over, and skipped over, you will not truly have a high school education.  What do you want to do with your life?  Do you want to live by truth, honesty, and integrity?  Do you want to go to college?  This may not seem important now, but it will in the not so distant future.

Free-ed.net is a website that offers GED and community college preparation; I would suggest using it to fill in your "learning gaps"; the link is below:

http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/

It's never too late to change; I am not condemning you, but I am being honest with you.

Answer 8

You've got 2 options, hon...either own up to your actions and go back and do your work (which is what I would expect my son to do, in your position - except he doesn't cheat...), or take classes that require accountability.  Either take some at a co op or at community college, but you have proven that you are not able to hold yourself accountable.  

Quite frankly, do both.  Be honest with your mom, and set a coursework load that will require accountability.  Whatever you do, don't graduate early - you're not ready for it.  This is your future on the line, and you still have the time to prepare for it.  Don't cheat yourself out of that.

Answer 9

Honestly, what they expect you to know when you graduate high school is almost nothing.  People have received diplomas *without learning to read*.  Just be lazy and cheat your last semester away, snag the diploma, and move on to college.

BUT, don't just by lazy.  Identify the subjects that are the hardest for you, and work on those.  You may have to take one or two remedial courses in college, so that sort of preparation will make the first year of college a little easier for you.

I was one of those straight-A students in high school.  I was always amazed at how little other people knew when arriving at the same college that I did.  Trust me, there will be remedial courses available to you after you get into college.  You may have to take an extra year there to make up for lost time, but you sound like you're smart enough to be able to finish a degree.

Just keep in mind that any extra years in college mean extra years *paying* for school, instead of getting it for free.  If you're on a tight budget, and won't be getting a lot of scholarships, you might want to take a year to study before heading to college.

You made some bad personal choices, but they don't have to affect the rest of your life.

Answer 10

Absolutely not. Especially if you plan to go to college. What are you going to do if when you get older your children need help and you can't help them because you cheated your way through high school? It's unjust. And it may not bother you now, but the guilt will eat you alive later on.

Answer 11

Sneaky idiot.

Answer 12

Well, I am new here, and I was just looking through the site and this just happened to be the first thing I read, and all I can say is, that by just continuing to cheat all you are doing is cheating yourself, along with possibly losing some respect from you mother, who trusted you to do what you needed to do. Your mother only wants what is best for you, and by doing this you could be showing her you aren't as responsible as she thought you were. Stop a minute and think about when you are married and have your own children, would you want them to cheat their way through life? Are you going to be able to accomplish your goals in life if you continue to cheat?

This is just my opinion, and I am homeschooling my 7 and 8 yr old boys and I would be very disappointed in them if I found out they were cheating.

Like I said, just sit back a moment and think about who you are hurting. (you more than anyone else)

Hope I have helped!

Answer 13

No, you're not going to learn anything. You're teaching yourself bad morals.

Answer 14

I think you should stop cheating. And you always can learn something new! With that attitude, though, you are going to have trouble in college and in the 'real world'. Short cuts usually backfire.

Answer 15

Don't you need to take the midterm and final exams at a place where they keep an eye on you and check you independently of you home? My son take his tests at the Office of the Homeschooling.

Answer 16

If you're planning on going to college or planning on getting a job, you really do need the skills that you gain from studying and learning your school! I speak from personal experience here! I was a homeschooler up until a few years ago when I hit college, and I promise you, if you can work hard to do well on your own without cheating, college will be a heck of a lot easier.

In middle school, I was sort of in the same scenario as you - I wasn't really doing any school at all besides just glossing and checking (like you) but in high school I decided to change, and I began working hard to do everything the best I possibly could, and you know what - now I'm in college and have a 4.0 GPA, I would have never thought I could back in middle school! I know you can do it to!

It's not so much the facts and numbers that you learn in high school that help you do well in college, it's the skills you gain from learning how to study and to study well!!! It really does make a HUGE difference in college, so please don't give up, you're only cheating your own future! I hope that everything goes well for you!

Answer 17

Will you graduate with a high school diploma, or a GED, or what?

Is there a state competency test you must take and pass in order to graduate?

I'll never be one to advocate cheating.  However, I thought high school was a huge waste of my time.  A high school diploma means virtually zero these days (though it's still a lot better than no high school diploma, which means you are less than zero).  If you are already taking college classes and doing well (without cheating), that suggests to me that you have the intelligence and the drive to do the work and succeed.  All that stuff in high school only goes to prepare you for college.  Otherwise, if you can read, write and do reasonably simple math, there's not a whole lot you'll learn in high school alone that can get you a job or career.

In your case, unless you need to know some of the math stuff as a prerequisite for the college courses you'll be taking, I don't see where you skipping to the answer section will be holding you back in your future.  Though mom might be a little dense to think you haven't missed a single question in the past 2 1/2 years....

Answer 18

ok cheat your moms at work cheat and pass

Answer 19

When you get out into the real world are you ever in for a shock. Cheaters are universally hated by taking the easy way out. Ok so you want a job as a cheater. Enter politics and feed at the same trough the rest of the cheaters do. Get real!!

Answer 20

cheat, there's only one life to live!!! (joking)

Answer 21

even though you may not learn anything new, it is still not a good thing to continue copying. you may think your not going to learn anything new, but you never know that. the answers that you copied out of your mom's answer key, i'm not sure if you obtained that knowledge or not. since you copied, its better if you take this last semester and just use it as a review semester, you may find some things you don't know and you still have time to go back on it, but if you are in college and you don't have time to go back on it, then your kind of in trouble and the tution fee is running up which is expensive.

Answer 22

That sounds harsh. I was home schooled myself up until a year and a half ago, but I never did that. If you keep it up though, I think you're going to get a rude surprise when you get into college where you really do have to study and know things.

Since you're almost done high school and you're behind, it might not be a bad idea to catch up, but don't take it for granted whatever you do.

Answer 23

This is what gives us REAL homeschoolers a bad name.

Answer 24

well the reason teachers and people tell you not to cheat is not because of the work itself but because it teaches you the value of hard work. it also gives you the satisfaction of knowing you worked hard and figured it out. cheaters might have gotten it right but they didn't actually do the work. since you sound like a smart person your probably going to college i would say do your work yourself for the next semester. it will help you for college because cheating in college is near to impossible and the consequences are far worse than in high school.

Answer 25

With a quality education like that, I certainly hope that you go into some respected field like burger flipping or parking cars.  I sure don't want you as my doctor, lawyer, pilot, or etc.