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SF Gate: It's time to deal with students who cheat
pamplemousse25
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I was completely shocked and sickened to hear how rampant cheating has become in schools. I knew it happened, but in this amount? Ridiculous.
It's time to deal with students who cheat
The sad thing is, both times when I took the SAT, I noticed people cheating on sections. And I doubt they ever were in trouble for it.
62 repliesIt's time to deal with students who cheat
The sad thing is, both times when I took the SAT, I noticed people cheating on sections. And I doubt they ever were in trouble for it.
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And my school uses TurnItIn too, but the sad thing is that in the article, teachers and principles etc refuse to acknowledge the cheating
"Gerald Fisher, a consulting professor of physics at Stanford, told of a student whose practice was to take an exam, then bring it back for a regrade, claiming the graders had missed material she'd written. "She did this on each of the midterms," wrote Fisher. Then, after the final, when she predictably came back for a regrade, Fisher revealed that he had photocopied her original, which lacked the material that now appeared, and filed charges against her with the Office of Judicial Affairs.
She was "let go scot free" and Fisher was disciplined for violating the university's honor code by copying her exam. "
HS and a host of other schools and colleges that helps combat
the type of behavior noted in the article.
Technology as usual is an answer to what could become a growing
moral malaise....
Its funny because cheating on the SAT is way different than cheating for school exams. In school you know whose smart and whose not but on the SATs its random people you barely know so its hard to fish out the intellegent ones versus thse who are not.
I was on MIT's Committee On Discipline, and we heard some very similar types of cases.
I can assure you that they were not let off scot free. Far from it.
Some student even write answers on the palms of their hands, and just keep them flat on the desk whenever a teacher walks by.
And hopefully, jessiehl. It's like adults have to baby-sit students even more now, slapping their wrists when they misbehave (cheat), and reminding them it's a "no-no".
Did you report them? Students who see peers cheating, but don't report them are reinforcing the cheating that's going on.
Well at least we know where your morals lie.
A lot of the kids at my school cheat. They get away with it a lot of the time, but sometimes they do get caught.
"The sad thing is, both times when I took the SAT, I noticed people cheating on sections. And I doubt they ever were in trouble for it."
Did you report them? Students who see peers cheating, but don't report them are reinforcing the cheating that's going on."
Honestly Northstarmom, who would stop in the middle of taking an exam in which you have a limited amount of time to report cheaters? Reporting eats away a lot of time that could be spent doing quite a few problems that can in turn, make a difference in your score. I wouldn't really care whether or not one cheats on an SAT. It's not worth actually taking my time off to acknowledge and besides, I don't necessarily see it as condoning the cheating; rather just not acknowledging it because we all know snitching isn't cute in high school these days.
Overall, cheaters never prosper and unfortunately they'll just have to learn the hard way.
I fear not the judgement that comes from a rider of the high horse.
But I'm flattered that you care to know the whereabouts a random user of the internet's morals. Of course, cheating is clearly the best determinant of morals; those kids copying the last few problems on today's math homework are tomorrow's serial killers.
If one didn't know any better, it could easily be construed that way if you've seen the way some users on this forum discuss it.
I didn’t post this thread to get into a fight over what’s more important in the world. I posted it for others to be aware. I don’t think you understand that.