Oh it's not cheating I'm just helping you along but don't tell anyone.

Today is the Thursday of Turpitude. It is a day for rejoicing because I am on school holidays and can relax and unwind. Also clear my own mind of the hatred that dwells in my heart for that blasted place.


Now throughout the year in the class Triple Science. We do these things called ISAs which are like little exams involving experiments. At the end of these are tests. Everyone did reasonably well in these tests.
The ones that tried at least.
Now our teacher is very keen on getting us as high a grade as possible and has made us do different ISAs so we can get better grades. Now this is all fine and dandy. Until it fell on me to go with the teacher with a few others for what I thought was tutoring.


Now you may have already gotten the wrong idea but I assure you this is all legal. To an extent anyway. Now once we got down to the room he handed this small group their ISA test papers or in my case a blank one for me to do because I was ill the day of the exam. This was fine, I assumed I would do the exam and they would be told what they did wrong but this was not to be.


All of a sudden the teacher then get's blank test papers and carefully opening them up with a staple remover. He hands certain blank sheets from said papers to the other students. (During all this I was doing my test quietly and ignoring what was now obvious to me.) He told the students to redo those questions. Now at first I thought.
"Well if they got it wrong before what will change if you just tell them to do it again." Oh how foolish I was.
The teacher then began 'advising' the other students on what to write.


Most would think either two things in my position.
A) Shut up stay quiet and just do the test. This way I don't loose my marks for saying anything and I did it all myself without help so I am not in the wrong.
B) Cash in on the gravy train and get me an A*


Now I was a little different. I was very blunt in telling the teacher what he was doing was wrong and illegal and I thought it was bad. He was very polite but a little nervous in saying.
"I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm just teaching you the stuff again."
And allowing them to go through their exam and correct things, really? That's not illegal at all?
He also offered me help but I told him no and made deathly sure he didn't look at my test paper as not to tempt him to say what was wrong or right.


If I am not going to get an A* from my own merits then I don't want it. (I got a B in the end. On my own I might add.) I think it was wrong that the teacher would think it is okay to help the students cheat. I don't think he deserves his job if he is going to do that. He is supposed to guide us not throw us at the grades. 


This all reminded me of Mass Effect 2. A line from it is. "We think all races should self determinate." Which is essentially saying all races in the universe should advance in technology and sociology themselves. Not be given advanced technology from a super being and just taught how to use it.


Now I understand the teacher merely wants to help me and the rest of the students get the grades we want. But he should trust in our abilities and teach us the best we can. If we fail it is not his fault but our own.


- Matt
I don't hate life.
I just hate life that is stupid.