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assignment and cheating
So my History teacher gave me a 0/200 becuase my neightbor copied off of my paper. She is one of my best friends, and I completely understand why the teacher gave us both 0s. What I don't get is that I let her copy because she was absent. We had to take notes on a video and she missed the video so I let her copy my notes. When we turned them in we both got complete 0s. I'm well aware that copying is wrong, and me being the one she copied from understands because if I did all the work while all she did was copy, I wouldn't ever let her copy. But the fact of the matter is that she was absent and I wanted to let her have the notes. (She's the teacher that doesn't allow make up ANYTHING.) I am going to talk to this teacher about maybe changing the grade, or asking for some extra credit to make up the score, but do you have advice on how to talk to her about this?
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just explain to her why and what you were doing and ask her what she would do to give you a second chance
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Tell your parents immediately what happened here. Let them know you provided your notes to a friend to copy down so she could study them for an assignment after she was absent.
You never expected her to copy the notes and then use the same exact wording as yours in the assignment you both handed in. Make sure they know you didn't cheat and are very angry over what happened and getting a zero out of 200.
Let them know the teacher won't budge on this despite it isn't your fault. Have them arrange a meeting with the teacher and the principal and yourself present with your parents in the room to plead your case.
If they still won't budge drop the class for now so you don't recieve penalty on your academic record that will haunt you when you apply to college or university. It sounds like this teacher is a hard ass and pretty old school in the way she deals with people.
I cannot judge if she's a good one or not but I would lean toward not as most teachers will listen to both sides of an issue and then judge.
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You should have a right to have your side of the story heard. I would suggest that you talk with a counselor and/or get both your and your friend's parents involved. You seem quite mature and ready to admit your mistakes, so I know you won't whine or make excuses. Just tell your side.
Sabine
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