The cheater

Found out from Younger Son that there's a boy in his class who is not only annoying and distracting in class, but who also likes to cheat off Younger Son's homework.

Huh.
What do you do?

As a parent, you can't really tattle to the teacher.
And I didn't feel right encouraging my child to tattle either.

(And personally, growing up, I never did figure out the difference between tattling and being helpful... even though The Brady Bunch devoted a whole episode to the subject.)

So, I told Younger Son that I would leave it up to him if he wanted to tell his teacher about this other boy. I pointed out that the other boy wasn't going to learn anything by copying other kids.

"Oh, that's okay," said this son of mine. "When he copies me, I just write down the wrong answer and change it when he's not looking. And then he gets it wrong."

Well, then.
I guess he's got it under control.