<p>warblers if your talking about blair hornsteine, I'd say harvard handled it very well</p>
<p>if your talking about the Opal Mehta thing . . . that was an out of school incident. If she plagiarized in school I'm positive she would be kicked out.</p>
<p>Three cheers for honesty! I'm really considering schools with honor codes - I'm so sick of the rampant cheating at my HS. Our school is a particularly terrible example, I'd say 1/2 the class cheats in some form on a regular basis. I've seen copying essays, people being paid to write essays, stealing the tests in advance, minature note cards ... the lot. I'm so ready to be out of here.</p>
<p>Three cheers for integrity . . . now I've got a friend's answers to copy. </p>
<p>jk</p>
<p>Congrats on making it to senior member, Murasaki.</p>
<p>Amen Brother... thats why I'm at a service academy right now. A midshipmen will not lie , cheat or steal... an if you do, you get kicked out so fast there won't even be a blur.</p>
<p>As much as I'd like for all people to be honest, kind, hard working etc. its not gonna happen. So though this is a great cause to raise our glasses to, its just not our reality. Oh well, not like it matters. Sure cheaters may get into better colleges than the non cheaters, but 50 years from now its the non cheaters who will come out on top. After all, you can cheat in school, but you can't cheat in life.</p>
<p>protege wrote:
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To those with integrity. This is a tribute to you all.
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Shark_bite wrote:
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...you can cheat in school, but you can't cheat in life.
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BRAVO!<br>
<em>standing ovation</em></p>
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There are schools where it is reality, if you really want to live in a world like that - go find them.</p>
<p>Last year, I found out the teacher aid in one of my classes was giving a girl in my class the anwsers to the tests/exams. The worst part? The kid ended up winning a citizenship scholarship for being a good, honest person.</p>
<p>Oh man.. Drew00. THAT's by far one of the downright WORST things ever. Terrrrrible. Did she ever get caught?</p>
<p>Thank you for saying this, protege.</p>
<p>To integrity!!!!!!(3 cheers)</p>
<p>This post really made my day, because today I was feeling ****ed off by the blatant cheating by one of my peers. </p>
<p>The teacher gave him a take-home test, because he never came to make up the test, and he ended up asking the high-scorers (including me) in my class whether we still had the test, and if he could copy the ALREADY graded test. He just wouldn't stop bugging me and other people, and it's not like his behavior is a first time thing, either.</p>
<p>*Raises glass...TO INTEGRITY!!!!"</p>
<p><em>To integrity</em>
You're welcome to all people thanking me for posting. BUT I thank you all for remaining integrity. To being one of the few left with a sense of integrity in them. Of course it sucks when people cheat. I posted because of so many incidents, finally snapped on me. It's hard to say no when someone asks you to copy if they're your friend or something. IT happens to me all the time. ANd they happen to pass off the same grade as you. Sigh. The world works in mysterious ways.</p>
<p>Goodness, it's nice to know that I'm not alone in this world. I hate hate HATE how I stay up till 3 AM actually doing my work and studying so I can do well on the next day's test, and then other students cheat off of one another so blatantly and get the same score that I worked my butt off to get. A lot of teachers don't help any either. For example, on this one test I had on Monday, there were so many people in my class talking to one another and giving each other answers because the teacher wasn't paying attention. AGH.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>To integrity and everything else honorable in life. :]</p>
<p>I think a required teaching course in college should be 'compating cheating in the classroom' it should be a 400-level seminar.</p>
<p>Haha chillaxin. That sucks.. I feel sorry for you. It's too bad it happens everyday. Today, we got math tests back. Teacher let us mark it ourselves. Supposedly we arne't sposed to change the answers, but people did. I sat there and very tempting. But.. Yeah. Sigh. LIfe is unfair.</p>
<p>I don't really understand. Yes, cheating is wrong but I agree with DrumNDukie. Education isn't about beating the person next to you but about doing as well as you can for yourself. Yes, someone who cheated may get into a better school than you and no they don't deserve to go there. However, there's no point in blaming them for your not getting in. The fact is you didn't get in because of something you lacked, not because of them. I'm not in any way saying that cheating is good, or acceptable just that there's no point in getting worked up over it.</p>
<p>(The "you" here isn't directed at anyone person.)</p>
<p>Cheating and other deficits of integrity little by little erode at a person's reason and decision-making skills. Eventually, the cheater will be deluded into thinking he is justified and safe and that no one notices what he is doing. Yesterday a very bright student in my S's HS got caught cheating on an AP exam. What was so surprising was that he didn't even use some high-tech, hard-to-detect method--he just had a Spark Notes chart on his lap. My S used to see him cheat last year too but he never got caught. He must have gotten careless. </p>
<p>But, here's something you should consider when you feel bitter about cheating: the student might be living a miserable and stressful life. This particular kid had been put under so much pressure from his parents to excel and keep up with his older brother that he may have subconsciously wanted to get caught cheating in order to once and for all ruin his chances for success and thereby be removed from the achievement treadmill. For him I have some pity.</p>
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Oh man.. Drew00. THAT's by far one of the downright WORST things ever. Terrrrrible. Did she ever get caught?
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<p>It was actually the teacher aide (who was giving kids anwser keys to tests) who won the good citizenship scholar ship, and no, he never got caught. Now he's at a top-25 university.</p>