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Friday, November 7, 2014

The Other Girl Who Tried to Cheat on a Test


Apparently in that one classroom where the girl in the wolf-skin studied, there were others who wanted to follow in her footsteps. Generalization aside, this story is about only one other girl. The difference between the two was that this new girl did not have the same skills at cheating as the one in wolf-skin.
The wolf-skin girl was a sly one. She had tricks up her sleeve that would throw back the biggest con artist who ever lived. There were talks about her in the staff room and her methods of cheating were never the same. She got caught on a couple of occasions, but it was still very hard to prove that she had cheated.
This other girl was an amateur and truly sweet. So much so, that the teacher immediately realized that she was cheating the moment she laid eyes on her. Her method of cheating was from a cheat sheet that she had neatly hidden in her book that was laying on the table smack in front of her. Every time she needed to know an answer she simply lifted the cover of her book and took a peek at her notes.
 However, it was not that easy for her to glance at them for the teacher had her eyes on the girl, especially because she was sitting right next to the experienced girl in the wolf-skin. Do not think that little wolf-skin girl wasn´t trying out her own tricks, she sure was. However, this time around the girl in the wolf -skin made a huge mistake: she sat next to her apprentice.  
The teacher let out a loud: Please do not cheat. Remember that teachers were students once too.
Some students smiled and laughed. The girl in the wolf-skin said she was not doing anything. Bingo! Whenever you deny something, it is very clear that you have done something wrong.  The apprentice turned as red as a turnip. She was getting nervous because the teacher would not turn away.
A break at last! One of the students went up to the teacher´s desk to ask her a question. The apprentice lifted her book and put her cheat sheet under her test paper. Meanwhile the girl in the wolf-skin sat on her hind legs so she could take a peek at another classmates test. 
The teacher could not simply go up to the girls and humiliate them in front of their classmates, nor could she simply take the tests away. Besides, she would bother the other students who were really focused on taking the test and doing their best.
Once again the teacher let out: You do realize I can tell whether or not you are cheating. Please do not make me take away your test and give you a zero.
That being said, the wolf-skin sat down properly; the apprentice stopped checking her cheat sheet. However, the apprentice made a huge mistake.
She handed in her test with the cheat sheet stuck between two of the pages. It just so happened that she had used one of those yellow pieces of paper that stick on to things to write her notes down on: caught red-handed.
(Written October 30, 2014) Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion.

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