![]() ![]() "Ultimately, it undermines the self when the moral self should be growing." "But the cheating epidemic is kind of death by a thousand cuts," he said. "Academic misconduct is small potatoes in the moral domain, compared to murder, rape and drug abuse," said Jason Stephens, assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Connecticut. But teachers say that adolescence is when moral values are hard-wired and that forgiving cheating then spells trouble later. Students like Sam argue there are different levels of cheating, and in some cases the end justifies the means. We want and expect our students to be exceptionally honest and good people." "But … we don't want exceptional to include academic achievement only. "Our school is nationally known for its excellence," he said. Harvard-Westlake president Thomas Hudnut said in a prepared statement that the incident was "an unprecedented breach of trust and a true aberration." Now, the incident has split the community, as 10 students face criminal charges, even though 50 were implicated in a police investigation.Īnd at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, a top-tier private school with a national reputation for academics, six sophomores were expelled and more than a dozen other students faced suspensions this week for distracting teachers and stealing Spanish and history tests. Students broke into a teacher's filing cabinet, stealing math exams. home of Dartmouth College where faculty children attend the local high school - criminal trials have been going on since November in connection with a 2007 cheating incident. They told school officials the cheating had gone on for years, as graduating seniors passed the key on down. In the second, students copied an exam with a camera phone. In one, students used a master key to enter a teacher's office at night to steal an AP history exam. This month at Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina - described as ruthlessly competitive with faculty children from nearby Duke University and the University of North Carolina - four students were suspended in two cheating incidents. Some are the highest-performing schools in the nation, where the pressure to get into an Ivy League college is intense and parents buy into the academic game. ![]() An estimated two-thirds of all high school students admit to "serious" academic cheating, according to a national survey by Rutgers' Management Education Center in New Jersey.Ī startling 90 percent say they cheat on homework.Ĭheating is epidemic, say experts, and recent scandals have rocked - and in some cases divided - both public and private high schools from New Hampshire to California. Sam is typical of most American students. ![]()
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