cheating

Today my day has been filled with students cheating. During our breakfast break (yes, my school takes a break and serves the students breakfast for free... which I think is a really good idea) another teacher came and found me and handed me 2 pieces of paper. They belonged to two boys in my first period class. She said she caught one of them copying. So, I got to talk to those two about cheating.

My fourth period was the kicker. We were going over homework from yesterday and I look back to a kid sitting in the back row and he is so obviously copying off of another paper. I asked him who it belonged to and he just said it was his so instead of making a scene I told him he could just talk to me after class. Well, after class I went over and talked to him and asked him which student he was copying off of. He said that he honestly wasn't copying from another student. So, I asked him whose paper it was. Well, turns out his Uncle's girlfriend did it and he was copying it into his own handwriting. Yes the kid was stupid for cheating but what makes me really mad is the stupid girlfriend. I assume that his uncle and girlfriend are adults. Why would an adult think that it was ok and that it was going to help the kid. I am not a teacher that assigns homework just for the fun of it. The homework prepares them for the TEST! Doing it will help him get a good grade. So, if he isn't doing the homework by himself does she think that she will be able to come in and do the test for him?!?! I took everything from him and told him to redo it and give it to me tomorrow or he wasn't getting any credit. The nerve of some adults. No wonder kids cheat, that's what they are shown is acceptable by the adults in their lives that should be role models.