'I stood up abruptly... there was a stunned silence': High school class's grades plummet after one student flips the script and gives everyone the wrong answers during their final history exam

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 7, 2023 10:00 AM EST

Hey there, Ms. Smith, if you're reading, yes, I one hundred percent was peeking at Sophie's test that time you pulled me aside and gave me a big fat zero with a smiley inside, just to be petty. You stared at me with your beady little eyes and breathed angrily into my face, and I in turn, totally lied and adamantly held my ground that I did not cheat on the test. Today, I'll admit… I was the kid who copied off of other students' tests.

I did not take school seriously, and that did not change, even well into my high school years. The system and I did not get along… But to be fair, I was not mean to the people I copied tests off of. In this case, the students copying off of OP's test did not treat them with respect, and that is what made OP take such serious action, resulting in everyone's grades plummeting into the ground.

OP's actions held ramifications for the students involved down the line, even several years later, and those same students ended up being knocked out of the running for Valedictorian. They made their bed, I guess. Now they have to lie in it. Scroll down to read the full story, and then check out this similar story about a computer science student who did the workload of 3 people for a group project and then got zero credit, pushing him to get even with his team.

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    SAN ANV LUNY CONVE "You should have been nicer to me." commerciall than ra regular 3. Why does Bonnie Patien of TINA think it's a problem that a celebrity's socia may not realize will you give me the answers ? whats #122
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    You should've been nicer if you were going to cheat off me. In High School, I was a bit like Hermione Granger in the worst way. I was just an awkward kid who understood the material as well as the teacher did. I was that
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    odd kid who read history books during the summer for fun. I'd constantly be raising my hand in class with the answer, looking for validation. That kind of behavior got me picked on quite a bit by a certain group of students in my history
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    class. They'd tease me (mostly behind my back), but they weren't above cheating off me on the tests as they were difficult, and they knew that I knew the answers. (Very few of my test scores in this subject were below 100% as History was/is a passion of mine) Initially, I was flattered, but over
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    the semester I got the sinking feeling of being used as these same kids didn't show me respect in any other way. Our final history exam was a 50- question+ multiple choice test that would be worth 30% of our grade. The stakes couldn't be higher. The
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    teacher wrote the questions to be tricky. On the day of the final, I scanned through the test in a few minutes. I knew the material and felt confident. My peers on either side of my desk were watching to see how I'd answer. Their neighbors were, in turn, discreetly watching them. It seemed as if the
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    entire side of my class was hanging on my answers. I answered the first three questions accurately; then I went for the almost-correct answer every other time. (This resulted in a -54% score) I was careful to let the other kids see my test. Then, when
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    I finished, I waited and stared at the wall with my test still in front of me. The time was running out, and my classmates all began nervously turning in their tests until only a couple of students on the other side of the room remained. With five minutes left, I stood up abruptly, crinkled my test into a
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    ball, and threw it into the garbage. I was trying to be dramatic. It worked. You've never heard such a stunned silence. I quickly grabbed a new test from the table. (there were a couple still there, missing students). With a shocked smile, the teacher, said "There's only five minutes left." I didn't care. I had
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    spent the period memorizing the correct answers. With no time to spare, I answered the questions in a complete whirlwind... ABC ABD D D A B C C A B B... My friends told me later that everyone was staring. I didn't have the bandwidth to see it. With
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    ten seconds left, I turned in my test. The kids that had cheated off me looked pale and sickly, in a state of shock. They knew that I SI d them over. They just didn't know how badly. There was nothing they could say or do.
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    I was one of three students that had an A in that class that Semester. The average grade was in the low ~60s. That low grade for my classmates ended up knocking several kids out of the running for Valedictorian several years later.
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    Oddly, I was treated with noticeably more respect after this, and I wasn't cheated off of again, as far as I could tell.
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    Apprehensive_Skill34 · 15 hr. ago I was like this in my history classes. I loved it and had a fantastic memory for these things. I always sat in the front of the class and listened. I skipped class one day because I hated my history teacher, and there was a test
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    that day. He gave me a 0, and he said you have to get an 80 on the final if you want to pass my class. I got a 100. Not a single question wrong. I shoved it in his face the next year and said, "Glad to not be in your class anymore."
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    In next year's class I had a girl who was just terrible at school but very nice to me. It was her last day and a test in that class. I allowed her to copy off of me, and we got the same score. The teacher asked me if she cheated, and I just kept my mouth shut because she never bullied me and treated me
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    badly. I said maybe she just put the effort through for her last day. You're welcome, Sabrina. I hope you're not still on the streets. ↑ 325 Reply Share
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    ChampionshipNo5707 15 hr. ago The cheaters didn't really have any recourse did they? Brilliant. You probably made them better students. 43 Reply Share
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    taloncard815. 15 hr. ago Like a boss. Perfect microphone drop moment 18 ↓ Reply Share
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