I am currently taking Introduction to Python, my mom signed me up to learn on weekends cause my mom doesn’t want me like regular teenagers who waste time on weekends; basically, it’s coding and computer science. It’s a fairly moderately difficult course, and I only started getting better after Christmas.
So basically last week my teacher wasn’t in the classroom because she was helping with administrative stuff. This was last Tuesday when I did the assignment, which was building a chatbot. The substitute teacher played the wrong video. He played the advanced computer science video, so some directions I could’ve gotten weren’t given. We tried to tell him but he didn’t listen.
Fast forward to yesterday, I did the assignment and turned it in. I took around 10-15 minutes on it, which is quick for me, but I’d been practising my coding in my spare time.
So yesterday, the teacher brings up that if we cheated we’d get a zero. I found it weird that she even thought to bring this up seeing as my class and I are good kids (as in none of us talk back) I shrugged it off.
Then, I go to check my grade for it and see I got a 0. I’m like “wtf?” and start panicking. My friend who did an assignment similar to mine got a 20/20. So then I start panicking and then proceed to have a panic attack. My friend manages to calm me down, and I go to the teacher.
I ask her about it, and she was like “Your answer was exactly like the answer key. How?” And I’m like “I don’t know, I just did what the assignment told me to do.” She then accuses me of cheating, saying that I probably looked up the answers online. Which no, I didn’t. I have since checked my search history and found nothing relating to it. She says that I only took 10-15 minutes when I “couldn’t even do a variable and took 30 minutes to do that previously”. Which is untrue. Yes, I struggled with coding, but I’ve gotten better at it through practice.
After having no luck with her, I just take the L. I go home and tell my grandma, and she is beyond pissed that I would be accused of cheating. She offered to go to the school, but I told her no. She told me I need to stand up for myself.
Should I go back with my grandma? I don’t want to make her mad at me, but I also don’t like being accused of cheating when I really didn’t. I love coding, and I genuinely have been practising.