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Input: This post might be a bit long.

Here’s some background: 

I (15F) am currently taking algebra 2 and am one of 3 people in my class that actually understands or passes anything. 

A lot of the time, the teacher will go over a lesson and we will have to work in our assigned groups to solve a couple problems based on the lesson. Sometimes the fastest group (with correct answers) gets candy. 

In my class are about 8 people I know and talk to maybe once a week in school. I definitely wouldn’t call us friends but we do talk and joke around occasionally.  Anytime my teacher mentions something about group work or a group test, these people will look at me and say, “Um _______ can sit over here!” while pointing at a seat next to them and laughing.

Now, I am happy to help people on stuff and I have given answers to these people but, some of the people expect me to cheat and give them all the answers all the time.

Now for the real story:

Yesterday in math we were going over a new unit and, like always, I am one of the only ones who learns anything. 

Because are class is one topic ahead, our teacher gave us a worksheet that she would count as extra credit for our unit test if we finished before the end of class. It was a pretty straight forward sheet and we had to do all the even problems 1-20. We had already gone over a couple during the lesson and we had about 30minutes of class left.

I was sitting at my table with one other person (the rest of our group was absent).This guy I’ll call Tom is known for being bad at school and generally not paying attention. On our last test he got 2/64 right.

I was going through this worksheet and then two of Tom’s friends came and sat at my table. Our class was really low on attendance and we are already a small class so I was the only “smart person” there at the time. 

The first guy I’ll call Dan is one of the people I occasionally talk to. He always tries my patience and never pays attention when I try to help him. The other guy I’ll call Jake, is worse at math than Tom. He purposefully shouts out random answers thinking it’s funny. He is in algebra 2 and algebra research.

The first thing these guys say is, “Hey, can you give us all the answers.” 

I just kind of stare at them thinking how they have the audacity to ask that since they never pay attention and the teacher would know that if they had all the right answers, they were cheating. 

I asked them if they even tried and they said no. 

I told them to let me finish the problem I was on and then I would help them, not give them the answers. They start talking and being a bit rowdy. I asked them to stop and they just looked at me like I was being rude.

At this point, our teacher had said at least 4 times we are doing even, she had written it on the board and said to right it on the sheet. 

I was almost done when Jake says, “Are we doing odd or even?”My response was basically that he can ask someone else or just pay attention next time. 

I am on the very last step when Jake starts to mutter stuff under his breath where he knows I can hear him. Saying things like “I don’t like rude people” “why you being such a b***ch” 

I finished the problem while saying “I don’t like ignorant people who don’t pay attention and expect to people to give them all the answers and cheat” 

Jake starts saying that he doesn’t care if he learns. “It doesn’t matter as long as I pass the test.” 

Then I ask him how he’s gonna do that if he didn’t learn any of the material that’s gonna be on the test. 

“I don’t know. Cheat, I guess.” was his response.
Dan was laughing the whole time.

I said, “Well cheat off someone else cause I’d rather not” and moved onto the next problem.

He starts his muttering again and I just ignore him. 

Dan says something along the lines of “great, now we’re gonna fail. No one else has the answers” I don’t know if he was saying it to me or Jake.

I am working silently when Dan, Tom and Jake steal each other’s papers. They are being more rowdy and I just go and sit at a table by myself. 

The teacher yelled at them and all of them kept glancing angrily at me like I did something.


The whole situation was dumb and I don’t think I owe it to them to sit there and deal with that. My friend said I overreacted and should have gave them the answers and none of that would have happened.

AITA?








not helping my classmate in math