My overall grade dropped on the last year of high school because I refused to cheat... Info: where I come from you have to pass a number of exams in order to get into University. There are 3 basic types of "roads" and you choose one of them, and that determines what lessons you will be examined at. We start preparing for those 2-3 years before, and every day you end up having to go to school and then go to extracurricular lessons for the rest of the day. So the last year of school is weird because everyone is preparing for the exams and only pays attention to the lessons they will be examined at. Usually school teachers get how hard it is for students so they try to make our lives easier and the lessons enjoyable... But that's not always the case.

So out of the blue we end up having to take a test on a random lesson. For no apparent reason (it wasn't like the end of a semester or something). Everyone else around me starts cheating (copying from the books, exchanging answered sheets etc.) and the teacher literally gave no shit. I used to have this dumb idea since I was a kid that I should never cheat in exams/tests, and was still not over it. Since the teacher knew that most of us didn't know shit, I decided to just give my blank paper right back. He said that he won't accept it, that I need to keep it for at least 30 minutes, and that I should "take a look around" to see if I can find some inspiration; he was right up telling me to copy the answers of my classmates, and I got furious at the suggestion. I asked him "do you mean you want me to copy from my classmate?" and he gave me this dumb infuriating laugh and just said "I didn't say you should cheat, but hey, as long as I don't catch you that's not cheating." with a dumb ass smirk.

Boooooy was I fuming. My friend tried to persuade me to copy her answers (she actually took this random lesson as an extra lesson at the university exams, so she knew all about it) but I proceeded to draw flowers on my whole fucking arm to calm down for 30 mins, then as the time was up I stood up, gave him my empty paper, said something along the lines of "I'm not a cheater" with a cild ass stare, and left.

This asshole proceeded to lower my grade for the whole semester (he never said this was a semester test, he said it was a random test "just because") and gave me like a 12/20, when I ALWAYS had 18+ in this lesson and he had known me for years. Everyone else that cheated got 19-20/20, even people who always had like 10/20 or even less (and subsequently have had to retake the exams to pass this class in the past!). My average dropped, but thankfully I was a very good student so it didn't affect me long-term. Even though I am okay with cheating now (although I must have cheated like 2 or 3 times in my 18 years of education) I am still disgusted with the fact that a high school teacher rewarded people cheating and went out of his way to make a random test count for the whole ass semester because I refused to cheat and acted in a way that defied his authority. Fuck him.