Grandma admits she cheated in test 47 years ago

[cycloneye]

GYPSUM, Colorado (AP) -- A high school graduate has confessed to cheating on an English literature test -- 47 years ago.

Eagle Valley High School principal Mark Strakbein said he got a one-page, handwritten letter from a 65-year-old grandmother of five who admitted she and a friend stole the answers to a Shakespeare test in the fall of 1957.

"I know it makes no difference now (after 47 years), except maybe this will keep some student from cheating and help them to be honest -- conscience never lets you forget -- there is forgiveness with God, and I have that, but I felt I still needed to confess to the school."

Strakbein didn't release the woman's name but said he confirmed she graduated in 1958 from Eagle County High School, which has since been consolidated into Eagle Valley High.

Strakbein said he read the letter aloud to every homeroom class as a lesson in following your conscience.

"You could have heard a pin drop," he said.


Wow all that time until now when she confesses.Haved any of you cheated in tests? I did one time in 7th grade at an english test.

[sunny]

Nope, I never cheated on a test!

[Skywatch_NC]

Man alive, the poor woman's conscience must have been driving her near the point of insanity all these decades!! It's a very commendable thing though on her part to want to confess after so much time has elapsed!

No, I can honestly say that I have never cheated on any test...but have witnessed some sneaky fellow classmates doing so...even in Bible class in the Christian high school I attended there'd be one or two on occasion who would cheat off someone else in writing down a memory verse!

Eric

[JenBayles]

Never cheated on any tests, but I threw an assignment away in second grade. This was back when a "new" concept called "contract math" was introduced. I have a math block to this day because of it. We working on subtraction and were given these worksheets to do, but the teacher was not allowed to give us any instruction on how to work the problems. We were just supposed to figure it out on our own. Uh huh.... right. I kept getting that stinking worksheet slung back at me with the big red DO OVER written on it and finally got so sick of it I wadded it up and threw it over the fence into the horse pasture. Funny thing about it - I don't recall ever hearing another word about that stupid worksheet from the teacher!

[streetsoldier]

I didn't find it necessary to cheat...but others did. Imagine some "classmate" stealing your gym bag (full of books) during lunch period, just so he could copy (sadly for him, word-for-word; his command of English was abysmal) the work you penned for an assignment?

It happened more often than I'd care to count.

[Pburgh]

When I was in 2nd Grade I copied my spelling test words on a piece of paper and put them under my foot. I got caught!!!!!!!! I was punished by my teacher and my parents. I never, ever cheated again on anything except my diet.

[Brent]

I did a little cheat on a test in middle school. I just got about 2 answers out of about 50 because of it. No one ever found out.

Now I'm going to hide.

[yoda]

I cheated on my ASL 2 Semester Exam Final. I got about 5 answers from a very smart girl sitting next to me. I really think some of the class cheated as well, cause our teacher wasn't really paying attention to us.

[Scorpion]

All the time .

[cycloneye]

All the time .

[depotoo]

yes - i did in third grade - i am so ashamed - it was in my communicants class - i never have had and obviously never will have - a good memory of word sequence - i can remember just about any number sequence - weird i know, but i cheated on my test as i could not remember the verse and wrote part of it on my hand. it has bothered me all these years.
boy! i feel better having confessed that! still ashamed but feel better - you guys are the first ones i have ever told besides God!

[Oregonian]

Cheating is disgusting to me. Believe it or not, two friends who teach children as young as second grade have caught students cheating....six and seven year olds!!

[Andrew92]

Never cheated on any tests, but I threw an assignment away in second grade. This was back when a "new" concept called "contract math" was introduced. I have a math block to this day because of it. We working on subtraction and were given these worksheets to do, but the teacher was not allowed to give us any instruction on how to work the problems. We were just supposed to figure it out on our own. Uh huh.... right. I kept getting that stinking worksheet slung back at me with the big red DO OVER written on it and finally got so sick of it I wadded it up and threw it over the fence into the horse pasture. Funny thing about it - I don't recall ever hearing another word about that stupid worksheet from the teacher!

I have never cheated on a test, but you do remind me of my 7th grade math teacher.

People refer to her as a bad teacher. Personally, that's a comment for this "teacher," if that's what you want to call her. Her idea of having class was putting an assignment for you to do on the blackboard and then sit back down at her desk, read the newspaper, and drink her coffee. Oh, and on top of that, she wasn't actually in the classroom half the time! And whenever she was, she was more of a supervisor than a teacher, and she even sucked at that.

Then one day she gave us a quiz and guess what happened? Yeah, like everybody flunked it (even straight-A students did too), and for the life of her, she couldn't figure out how! Hmmmm, maybe because she didn't actually teach the lesson perhaps? No, that couldn't be it in her world, because it was 7th grade stuff that should be easy to figure out (and I think she used the phrase "figure out!")

No, she wasn't a bad teacher. She just wasn't /isn't A teacher. And probably numerous kids have cheated in her class without her knowing (and she probably wouldn't have cared anyway, probably still doesn't, assuming she still "teaches").

-Andrew92

[JenBayles]

Hey Andrew! I think all of us at some time or another have had crappy teachers. In my case, the teacher was pulling her hair out because the school district had adopted this curriculum that did not allow her to give a formal lesson. The experiment, no doubt dreamed up by some phd educrat with zero classroom experience, was a total disaster. The district kept at it for three years - just long enough to ruin both me and my younger brother for math and finally dropped it. And they wondered why a lot of those kids resorted to cheating?!

[streetsoldier]

It is always very good to get old misdeeds out in the open...now,


GO TO YOUR ROOMS!!

[SouthernWx]

Nope..never. My parents knew I was honest, but also a very poor student in algebra and spanish (I didn't ever cheat on tests, but flunked a few

[yoda]

It is always very good to get old misdeeds out in the open...now,


GO TO YOUR ROOMS!!

And if I don't want to?

[mobilebay]

I remember one time I took a test without cheating. I think it was in the third grade.

[george_r_1961]

I have NEVER cheated on a test. And I dont plan on starting now.

[rainstorm]

we had a friend who would relay the answers to a history test to us at lunch. she was disgusting and mean and she forced me to listen to the answers against my will.