So two weeks ago, we had a lab and had to do a lab writeup in Chem. For one of the questions, I didn't know how to do a conversation from liters to mols and I asked another friend who was also in chem if she knew how. She told me 1 mol/22.4L. So I trusted her and used it for my calculations.
Two weeks later (today), after our chem test, my student teacher calls me up along with a couple of other students, one at a time, accusing us of cheating. She said 5 people had the same calculations all wrong using the same number. She asked me where I got 22.4 from when we haven't even learned about it yet.
I was like "From a friend."
"So you cheated off of her?"
"No, I just needed help and like---"
"I understand you guys get the same numbers on your data, but copying each other off for answers is not the right thing to do."
First of all, I didn't cheat...I did all the calculations and my whole write up, besides the data from the lab itself, by myself. And I got that simple number only from a friend. The rest on my own. So how the heck am I supposed to know I wasn't allowed to use 22.4L/1mol or w/e on my lab. The five other people who were also accused weren't even people I was closely associated with at all in my class either.
We tried bringing it up with the student teacher and Mr. Olsberg again and both got furious at us. "Do you want me to bring these papers up to the board? Do you guys want an honor code violation?" No... "Takes your papers. I''m tired of hearing your complaints and excuses. I don't ever want to see you cheating again."
The paper was a zero, but they said they weren't going to record it. At least, I think that's what they said.
So after, I went to my friend's Japanese class, the same one who told me 22.4L/1mol, right next to my 6th period Spanish2 class to rant. We were just talking about how ridiculous it was until my chem student teacher walked into the room, randomly. And I was just like "Crap, she's here O_O" and snuck back to my classroom before she caught my friends and I talking about the cheating issue.
Though, the zero didn't get recorded nor did I get an honor code violation, I was still pretty ticked off. They didn't even try to listen. But I kinda understand where they are coming from, having to deal with students all the time who actually do cheat or not. No one really knows the truth except for the person themself. Although it's very annoying...and I bet my student teacher's going to think I'm a kind of person who cheats now in Chem...how bothersome...She's going to be on my bad side for awhile. Mr. Olsberg too.
Sometimes I think adults treat us so harshly compared to their own peers. Where's our right for due process? Guilty! But--GUILTY! sheesh.
(I know, I'm too Phoenix Wright obsessed).
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Mr. Olsberg? Really? He's such a nice guy, though. My family has been friends with him for like... 7 years! He was the coach for our local swim team, the Greenbrook Gators, for a really long time, and I had him for chem last year.
You know, if you want, I could go talk to him and vouch for you. I could probably get him to understand that you weren't cheating.
Just tell me if you'd like that. I won't go unless it's ok with you.
hehe... ._.
-tells MOlsberg again-
HONOR CODE VIOLATION.
I dont want to risk it after he like...warned us already about taking our papers up to the school board about it and giving us honor code violation if we talked about it again.
ok, if you say so
Yeah, I offered somethign similar, but I just realized. Nowadays, he gets angry a bit quicker than normal. Something to do with his broken arm?
now that i think about it. ive noticed he's gotten angrier easily a lot this semester.
and like usually brodi does like shout outs and has these moments people cant stand and molsberg usually works around it with a joke..now he's so serious and short tempered.
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