What is the best way to reprimand kids caught cheating during spelling, quizzes and examination?
I find that confronting liars, cheaters and theives only means that they'll get better at what they do! I often just pick up their papers quietuly during a test and never say a word. I just put a zero or 50 on it and return it later. I never thought about what would happen if a parent called about it because I'm sure not a single kid has taken such a paper home. I never say cheated or cheating or cheater..we jsut both know. I had one student correct wrong answers on a graded paper and tell me I'd made a msitake. I thanked him and then in ink would record his wrong answers next to his penciled answers. I never said cheater but just found a way around his trick. He stopped ( in my class) so I had to tell my team members to do this as well. No one ever said he was cheating but he knew we knew. I don't want anyone to be a better cheater just because of me.