Q: Make sure the detergent is free of bleaches or chemicals that could stain the carpet. If you don't have a cotton ball, you can also use towel or wash cloth. Make sure the entire surface of the stain is covered in detergent. After 20 minutes, place a dry cloth over the silly putty and press down to absorb the detergent. The stain from the silly putty should be gone, and some of the leftover particles from the silly putty should be easier to remove.
A: Mix two spoonfuls of mild laundry detergent into a cup of warm water. Soak a cotton ball in the diluted detergent mixture. Use the cotton ball to blot the carpet stain and any remaining silly putty. Let the detergent soak into the carpet and leftover silly putty for 20 minutes. Use a damp cloth to wipe the stained area.

Q: If your honor code states that students are not supposed to cheat and they need to report any cheating they suspect, this sometimes works well. On assignments and exams, you can require that they sign an honor pledge stating that they did not cheat and they reported any cheating they witnessed. You may choose to not grade an assignment or exam that doesn't have a signed honor pledge attached to it. Make it clear what the consequences of cheating are when they sign the honor code. You should also have these consequences posted on the syllabus for the class, so that students can refer to it whenever needed. A key part of preventing cheating is building a relationship with your students so they don't want to disappoint or get in trouble with you. Some ways to build trust include being fair when grading, not having overly high expectations, and explaining your reasons for grades and class content. If you express your desire to build a relationship of trust with your students, and then support them and trust them in return, then they are less likely to cheat. Part of building trust with your students is showing your students that you care about them. They are less likely to break your rules if they know that you are looking after their best interests and are invested in their success. It is important to talk about academic honesty with parents, in addition to talking about it with your students. If you discuss your expectations and methods for avoiding cheating with your student's parents, they can help drive the message home to their children. This will be especially helpful for students who have very involved parents. Make homework count for only roughly 10% of a student's grade. This is typically enough to ensure that the students do the assignments. However, it will make other types of work, such as tests, more important. Most cheating on homework is in the form of excessive collaboration or searching for answers on the internet. If you use this type of weighting and thoughtfully construct your exams, the exams will enforce the no cheating policy for homework better than you can. The students who choose to cheat will likely have their grades lowered as a result of poor performance on exams. Those who are too used to being able to freely collaborate or use the internet may have a hard time with individual assessments. This makes it so there is very little incentive for copying solutions and not very much energy needs to be put into dealing with cheating on homework. Require that students show all of their work and/or provide reasoning for the answer they arrived at. It is very easy to simply copy a final answer off of another student on an exam. If you suspect a student copied off of another student for an exam question or changed their answer after the fact, ask them to reproduce or interpret their solution individually in your presence a few days later. If there is a large difference in their ability to produce that solution during the exam and reproduce the solution individually in your presence, cheating may have occurred. There are certain types of homework assignments that are more difficult to cheat on than others. Group projects and presentations are particularly hard for students to cheat on, unless they are all in on it together. In a group, each student will have specific responsibilities and they will be accountable to each other for the final product. When students are working together, individual students will find it harder to cheat, since that cheating will be exposed to their classmates. While group projects and presentations will not eliminate cheating altogether, they do make cheating less likely. A very common way of cheating is submitting a modified assignment for a regrade. Having a photocopy or scan of the original will allow you to see if the resubmitted work has been altered. Should you catch a student modifying and submitting their work for a regrade, the photocopy or scan becomes hard evidence when you report the case for academic action. This can often happen with students who are very close to the next grade up, who hope to potentially raise a B- grade to a B, for example. So, when photocopying or scanning a sample of exams before returning them, focus especially on those with scores near the grade boundaries.
A: Review the honor code. Build trust with your students. Emphasize honesty with parents. Make homework a small part of a student's grade. Have students show their work. Assign group projects and presentations. Copy assignments before returning them to students.

Q: Some schools go to great lengths to keep parents involved in the progress of their children, and if your school does this, you may need to go to equally great lengths to prevent your parents from finding out about a bad grade. However, you should note that these extreme measures take dishonesty to a whole new level, and you are seriously betraying your parents' trust by attempting to hide your mistakes in this way. If your school sends report cards or grades to parents via email, you will need your parents' email addresses and passwords so that you can login to their accounts to intercept and delete the email before they have a chance to see it. Parents are sometimes required to sign and send back report cards, and this is meant to ensure that the parents are aware of how their children are doing in school. For a school that does require a parental signature on a report card, you can't just hide the report card from them and hope they don't find out. Forging the signature of a parent without their consent is often considered fraud and is usually illegal. You can also try signing your own name in a creative way and hope that your teachers don't catch on. Another perk of modern technology is that parents are often now able to access their children's grades via online portals. While you can't prevent your parents from logging in and seeing your grades, you can try to stop them: Log on to the portal. Copy the format of your grades into an editing program. Manually alter the grades and print off the changed report. Show it to your parents. Some schools may call to notify you that report cards are coming out. Start offering to answer the phone a few days before report cards are due. After the call is made, delete it. Keep in mind that it may not be practical to always be available for the phone. If you are not sure when the call will come, your best bet is to block the school's number.
A: Delete email notifications. Sign on behalf of your parents. Change and print grades that are available online. Intercept phone calls.

Q: Especially if you're actually nearing the end of your life, it can be helpful to talk about the fears you have about death and dying. It can be a difficult conversation to have, but it is important to talk about. Find someone you trust and have a discussion with them. Let them know how you feel and what you think. Discussions about death and dying don't have to happen all at once. If you want to talk about death and dying, find someone who is willing to have an ongoing conversation with you. If your anxiety about death consumes you and you feel like you cannot deal with it on your own, it might be time to see a therapist. A therapist can help you work through problems and help you confront your fears in a safe way. Especially if you're scared to talk to family or friends about your fears, a therapist can provide a confidential space for you to process your thoughts and emotions and help you build coping skills. Find a therapist by calling your insurance provider or local mental health clinic. You can also get a recommendation from your physician, family, or friends. Depending on your needs, you may wish to join an anxiety support group or a group for people confronting death. It can be helpful to talk to people who have similar feelings and fears as you do and realize that you're not alone. You can also give and receive advice, support, and encouragement. Find a support group by calling your local hospital or mental health clinic. You can also join an online support group.
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Talk about it. See a therapist. Join a support group.