Lie, Cheat, Steal: High School ethics surveyed

hilsa
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:22:18 +0000

This article was just written to get people in a big fluff.

64% admitted to cheating. Ok, let’s think about that.

Even if that number is higher in reality, how is cheating defined? I’m thinking it’s probably defined as cheated once, and maybe over one test question.

I’ve done that once or twice, so I would be put into the category that I cheated…

…but I’m not a pro-longed cheater, and I doubt most of the 64% of kids are pro-longed cheaters as well.

And cheating off of homework, like vocab or something, shouldn’t even be counted as cheating. Most homework is just busy work… you don’t really learn anything from it. Everyone copies homework from everyone else. It’s an “I’ll scratch your back if you scrach mine” thing. And in the end, I’m sure we all still learned the material anyway.