'I gave him an instant zero': Student pays for service to write school paper, gets immediately flunked

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 24, 2023 11:00 AM EST

This teacher had no time for games. Instead, they had to give their student a giant F on their paper. 

Students have been trying and sometimes succeeding at cheating for millennia. Since the dawn of time, some kid will try to write answers to a quiz on their arm, or scribble answers onto their desk before a test. The popular cheating method in the mid-2000s was getting a Gatorade bottle, ripping off the wrapper, writing the answers down on the inside of the wrapper, and then putting it back together. The student can easily read the writing inside their innocent-looking beverage. However, teachers weren't born yesterday. So they just banned beverages during tests and quizzes. The students were defeated once again. 

Not to sound too old, but the kids these days have technology most of us could never have imagined even a few years ago. With the advancement of large language models, lazy children can put in a prompt, and within seconds, have a full paper written out for them. I see the temptation. On one hand is academic integrity, on the other is wanting to go over to your friend's house to play video games instead of working on a paper for hours. The choice for these kids must be so simple… until they get caught, that is. 

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  • This teacher, u/go_zarian, shared their story, which you can check out below. Stick around for the comments, where other teachers told their own stories of students trying to sneakily cheat. Just don't cheat, kids. It's just not worth it. 

    After that, this husband told his wife that her “roasted chicken tasted like cardboard,” and is now stunned that she's refusing to cook for him. 

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    'The most humorous case of cheating you've ever seen'
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    The most humorous case of cheating you've ever seen
    via u/go_zarian
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    I once had a student email me his assignment. It was his final assignment prior to graduation. He sent the email literally hours before I had to submit all the grades to the grading management system.
    via u/go_zarian
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    Within five seconds of opening the email, I gave him an instant zero. The student had hired a third party to complete the assignment for him for a fee. The third party had emailed the completed assignment to him, along with a demand for final payment ($50 deposit + $50 final payment). The student then simply forwarded the whole thing to me.... with the full email trail.
    via u/go_zarian
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    The student got furious and demanded to know why he got the zero. Me: You paid someone named Jim $100 to do your assignment for you.
    via u/go_zarian
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    Student: WHAAAAAT?!?!? How did you figure that out? Me: You told me.
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    Student: What? I didn't tell you! I stood my ground. He really couldn't figure out how I worked it out. He missed his graduation. Oh, and $100.
    via u/go_zarian
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    SassyWookie Social Studies | NYC lol Jim is an amateur. Never hand over the complete assignment until you've been paid in full. That's a rookie mistake.
    via u/SassyWookie
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    Feature_Agitated Science Teacher We just had one. A coworker caught a kid using AI when she had printed it out right before lunch and brought it into the staff room. The paper had words like "moniker" in it. Another coworker told the English teacher she's like rumpelstiltskin turning straw into gold if the low achieving students are writing that well. We all had a good laugh. She asked the kid what those words meant and he, shockingly, didn't know what they meant.
    via u/Feature_Agitated
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    MagicBez Recently got a job application through and the personal statement began "as a large language model..."
    via u/MagicBez
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    Stewtheking Had a kid recently who copied the entire test from the guy sitting next to him... INCLUDING THE NAME!!! Then, to be slightly subtle, crossed out the name and put his own. Genius.
    via u/Stewtheking
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    Morbid_Explorerrrr. French class. Kid used chat gpt to write his personal narrative. Didn't bother to translate it to ensure the response made sense. The response literally read (in French): "I am an artificial intelligence system. I don't have family and friends to share about." SMH
    via u/Morbid_Explorerrrr
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    Ok-Bonus-2315 It wasn't a test or anything, just bookwork. One student asked to go to the bathroom, but had to wait their turn. When I called their name to let them go to the bathroom they panicked and shouted "I'm not cheating!" Lol
    via u/go_zarian
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    TallBobcat I once had a student turn in the exact same paper his sister wrote five years before. I knew for two reasons: She had a very unique writing style and "he" answered the essay prompt for her class, not his. (I change them out every year.) Gave it back to him with: 0/100. You did not write this.
    via u/go_zarian
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    Parent requested a meeting about it. Asked to see proof he didn't write it. So, I handed them a copy of "his" work and a copy of his sister's. I said "I think you'll find these are identical. Also, while her work did a wonderful job addressing the topic I gave her class. His class was not given the same assignment."
    via u/go_zarian
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    I looked across the table and could see the kid's soul leave his body and the extreme disappointment in his parents faces. Before they got up to leave, his mother said "He accepts fully the consequences of his actions and hopes he won't be expelled for this." then looked at her son and asked if he could use the office conference room to call his sister and apologize to her.
    via u/go_zarian
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    briman2021 I had a kid who thought he was slick using chatgpt, and the answers being given were absolutely correct but the vocabulary was far above his level, and the grammar was perfect. On his handwritten work, it would be riddled with misspellings, run on sentences and dumb like not capitalizing his last name, but when it's a typed assignment he turns into Shakespeare.
    via u/go_zarian
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    LizziSpeaks Kid used ChatGPT. Asked him what "vast" meant (it was used in the essay. His answer: "ma'am... it means really really angry." Me: "Student, did you use AI?" Him: "Yes, ma'am." Gave him a second chance to do the essay though.
    via u/go_zarian

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