I’m language teacher so let me tell you what will happen if your daughter is my student.
I’ll mark all of the papers.
I’ll check to see what common errors there are. The main purpose is to find out if everything has been both taught correctly and understood correctly. It also highlights students who may have been cheating by ‘helping’ each other but mostly, I will modify my teaching to focus more on a grammar point/vocabulary/whatever.
Then I’ll check to see if anyone did particularly well or badly based on their past performance. If Jane’s mum has just had another baby, their will be distractions in that home that could affect her grade, or Tommy’s parents are getting divorced. I’ll ask students about their grades and what went wrong. Because I teach languages, I have done this in the target language and had such a brilliant response from a student, I booted her up to the next level to match her speaking and made her promise to work her ass off to get her written work up to scratch. She didn’t disappoint. I have also allowed resits for those with reasons but less ability to demonstrate their skills on the spot.
Those who have performed significantly better than anticipated also get looked more closely. I’ll double check their answers can replicated using similar questions/grammar/vocabulary. Then I’m usually pretty blunt and ask them why that can do x on a test but not with me. The silence speaks volumes but is then usually followed by a rush of crappy excuses.
I have been known to say ‘I am paid to mark your work, not your friend’s/sister’s/father’s/brother’s’.
If I believe cheating has occurred, you get a zero, not a second chance.
I will ensure my HoD knows the reason for the zero. I will speak to the parents and no amount of pressure will make me change that grade.
There will be a lecture regarding the importance academic integrity, how plagiarism is theft, how children learn by example, and how languages are taught and learned in such a way that they require building blocks and foundations. If I don’t know you are missing a building block, I will not teach that building block and therefore you will not effectively learn the next block.
Students that cheat lose my respect. Their work will always be subject to additional scrutiny in my classroom.
If I am your daughter’s teacher, there is at least a 90% chance that you and I will be having a chat a few days after the test. Do you really want me to judge your parenting and lecture you? You are welcome to lie or hang up the phone but that isn’t going to help your daughter’s education.
Let me know what she doesn’t know so that I can actually help her achieve her potential.
Don’t teach her to be a cheat or take short cuts. Teach her to be honest and to learn.