Trust is a weakness...

First of all, sorry about the pictures, there's just too many and it's extremely difficult to put them all online. The best I can do is, burn them on a CD if you are ready to give them to me.

Anyway, the theme for today's post was the Class XII UT Results, especially Informatics Practices.
After the Paper Leak Incident, our teacher Vidya Ma'am was extremely furious and the way she examined our papers completely showed her anger.
I can understand how she felt and I don't blame her either, because it wasn't her fault anyway. She has the entire right to be angry with us now...
So many papers were given full marks for "trash" answers and 0 for the correct one's. And it seemed as if she gave ZERO's in style. Each ZERO in every student's paper ( yes...every student has at least 2 ZERO'S ) has a prominent DASH (-) surrounding it. No one knows why...

We know the students were guilty...even most of the good students...and here's how the others got away with it:
When Vidya Ma'am asked the students who were directly or indirectly involved with the "paper leak" to stand, very few students stood, some which comprised the gang of people who were involved (and were honest enough) and the others who thought that whatever information they got about the paper was a condition for them to be guilty.

Now, out of the students sitting, some were the one's whom weren't involved at all. And again, some who didn't dare to stand for they feared that their reputation and trust would be shattered. I don't wish to name those students, but at least those who honestly admitted their faults felt that Honesty simply did not pay.

All those whom had owned up to it, had got marks in the range ( 20 - 30 ) marks with very few exceptions. And those who didn't own up, and were majorly involved ended up with a lot better marks than the others.
As a result, all those who honestly owned up felt that there was no point in Honesty. It would have been better off by just sitting down and getting away with it.Ma'am wouldn't know that we're involved she would still trust us.

But the better half of the students somehow felt that it was wrong to admit our mistake. We started questioning ourselves whether what we did was right or wrong. Why did the others get away with it so finely? Whatever happened to honesty? Is what they are doing the right thing?

And the best part was that Vidya Ma'am believed firmly that those who didn't stand up were not involved at all...That's your BIGGEST Mistake Ma'am. This Gang is where you'll find the real players...and the ones whom when revealed will astonish you to great heights.

Contrary to Vidya Ma'am's thinking, those who didn't own up were the ones who actually destroyed Ma'am's faith in them, and not those who honestly admitted their faults. We stood because we knew that it would be unfair to play games with Ma'am's faith in us, and so we did what we felt was right...
Sadly...none of us were happy with the decision we took.

We suddenly see light in the wrong direction.

And now we face a major question staring right at us in the face...

IS HONESTY REALLY THE BEST POLICY, TODAY?

And after all this, we still don't blame Vidya Ma'am for there was no real way she could find out whom actually to blame.


And Vidya Ma'am says we've changed....Yes we have...

Now we wonder whether to choose the "once encouraged" honest path...or choose the safer option...LIE!!!

I hope God has the answers to all our queries...