accused of cheating

robinsuesanders
Fri, 07 May 2010 17:15:49 +0000

Regardless of whether your kid’s school makes your kid obligated to report the kid who’s cheating—and encouraging others to cheat—on the pre-calculus test, I believe he’s go a moral obligation to turn the cheater in by reporting the cheater to the pre-calc teacher and/or the principal and showing them the text messages.

Kids cheat because they no longer see it as wrong.

Kids cheat because they think everybody does it.

Kids cheat because no-one ever gets caught.

Kids cheat because cheating doesn’t hurt anybody.

And the kids are WRONG, but they won’t start seeing being academic honesty as being something honorable unless the grownups in their life start reinforcing that being honorable is important.