Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception

Article by Perez-Pena

        
     The article "Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exceptions" talks about how students cheat more today than years before and the schools are allowing it to go on. The parents and the teachers are being blamed for not teaching their students and children that cheating is wrong and that they should not do it. The article also states that the internet and phones play a big role in cheating as well. "When you start giving take-home test exams and telling kids not to talk about it, or you let them carry smatphones into a test, it's an invintation to cheating." said Michael Josephson, president of Josephson Institute.

       They stated that the internet is also an invintation to plagiarism. "Students are suprisingly unclear about what is plagerism or cheating." Said Mr. Wasieleski, an associate professor of management.

 Cheating so happens to be at many schools around the world. Even the top colleges and high schools Such as, Harvard University, Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, And the Air Force Academy.

        I personally think that cheating isn't a problem at all schools. Maybe 90% of the students at my school didn't cheat. And I do agree with the aricle on it being the parents and teachers fault because they let the cheating go on in their schools and didn't take the  time to change or enforce any rules on cheating. However, It is also the students' fault for doing the cheating as well. People should start taking responsibility for their own actions and I think that the people blaming just the parents and teachers are actually teaching the students to blame others for their actions and mistakes.

         "We have a culture now where we have real trouble accepting that our kids make mistakes and fail, and when they do, we tend to blame someone else." said Tricia Bertram Gallant, author of "Creating the Ethical Academy."