Friday, June 19, 2009

Learning to Cheat

Forget crib notes inked on arms under shirt sleeves - that's old school.
Cheating has gone high-tech, with more than a third of the nation's teenagers saying they use cell phones to boost test scores or grades, and at least half admitting using the Internet to cheat.
A survey by Common Sense Media of more than 1,000 students ages 13 to 18 found that more than a third said they'd used cellphones to cheat at least once. In addition, about 38% said they'd copied text directly from the Web and turned it in as their own work.
Other ingenious forms of cheating include storing notes on a cellphone, using camera phones to take pictures of tests to send to classmates and text-messaging friends for answers. The incidence of cheating is the same for honors students and non-honors students, the survey found.
But the students don't always think it's wrong.
While about 40 percent say sneaking a peek at notes stored on a cell phone is a serious offense, nearly a quarter of those polled said that's not cheating at all.
more HERE and HERE

...so, not only are these scumbags earning false degrees since they learn nothing...they have no moral compass, probably never heard of ethics and can't distinguish between right and wrong...we're truly fucking doomed...

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