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Oh, Sweet School! Oh, Wonderful World!
We have this delightful girl in our class by the name of Iselin. She has cheated through all our three years at Nordstrand, and the scale has grown with the difficulty and work-load. Lately, she has been cheating on more or less everything. And got caught on the English final. For three years she has been getting undeserved 6's, and no one has said anything.
Now she claims to be anorectic, and our teachers have talked with her. They now know that she has been cheating all year. Her excuse was that "I can't do anything but exercise, these days, I just can't revise". Normally, when someone is having a hard time, they take the time they need to get better, talk to their teachers about it and reduce their work-load. After Christmas this year she had a disastrous fall-out with a few people, and she has generally been having a tough time, it seems. While I have all possible sympathy for that, I cannot stand her way of dealing with it. You do not cheat your way to exemplary grades. You just do not. The rest of us work for them. And for the school to simply let it slide, is horrendous. It is outrageous. Letting her have grades she does not deserve, letting her get a place at a university she has not worked for.
But, we know she is intelligent, and that she would have gotten these grades if it wasn't for her illness. Oh, right, the illness she pretends to have? Like those cutting for attention, she displays it. She prances about bragging of how little she has eaten, of how she is soo tired – she just spent to hours at the gym, before coming to school at 8.
Perhaps I should fake a depression? That would justify my cheating on my up-coming exams. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
I echo my words: if I have children, they will not go to a Norwegian state school.
Now she claims to be anorectic, and our teachers have talked with her. They now know that she has been cheating all year. Her excuse was that "I can't do anything but exercise, these days, I just can't revise". Normally, when someone is having a hard time, they take the time they need to get better, talk to their teachers about it and reduce their work-load. After Christmas this year she had a disastrous fall-out with a few people, and she has generally been having a tough time, it seems. While I have all possible sympathy for that, I cannot stand her way of dealing with it. You do not cheat your way to exemplary grades. You just do not. The rest of us work for them. And for the school to simply let it slide, is horrendous. It is outrageous. Letting her have grades she does not deserve, letting her get a place at a university she has not worked for.
But, we know she is intelligent, and that she would have gotten these grades if it wasn't for her illness. Oh, right, the illness she pretends to have? Like those cutting for attention, she displays it. She prances about bragging of how little she has eaten, of how she is soo tired – she just spent to hours at the gym, before coming to school at 8.
Perhaps I should fake a depression? That would justify my cheating on my up-coming exams. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
I echo my words: if I have children, they will not go to a Norwegian state school.
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