“I wanted them to succeed”
Wellllll......”them” didn’t succeed because you failed to do your JOB. You didn’t teach them the information “them” needed to know.
Either “them” failed for not learning, or the teachers failed for not teaching “them”.
As it stands now, “them” failed, and the teachers failed.
Remember that Steinmetz scandal in Chicago? This is the same thing. I don’t think that they actually see it as cheating, not unless they actually change the answers.
Changing the answers wasn’t done to help the students, it was done to help the teachers and the school.