Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Education: Why has cheating become an epidemic?
Renew America ^ | June 27, 2019 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 10/14/2019 4:17:13 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

1 posted on 10/14/2019 4:17:13 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Because many of our leaders have cheated and to this day lie, and have set the example.


2 posted on 10/14/2019 4:20:32 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice
simple, throw God and the ten commandments out of the public sphere and everything is relative. We are here:“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
3 posted on 10/14/2019 4:25:43 PM PDT by Fungi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, the Democrat Party.


4 posted on 10/14/2019 4:31:22 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

In our area, there are a lot of people, some from other cultures, where it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. They don’t get it that if you don’t actually know the knowledge, you will not be able to do the job. Your building will fall down, your surgery will be malpractice, or your software will crash. They think if you have the grade or pass the qualifying exam, that’s the important thing, in order to make the contacts and score the $$ career.


5 posted on 10/14/2019 4:32:59 PM PDT by married21
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

I remember back in college taking a Humanities class that I never atteneded. At the end of the class I could either take the final, or write a paper. I chose the paper and did some sort of bullshit along the lines of “A Existential View of Death,” or some such nonsense. I threw in logic symbols and equations and lifted heavily from Sarte...But... I made certain to put quotes around all those sections and footnote it...If you lift the whole book but quote it and footnote it...you are all good, evidently. Oh...and I got an A in the class that I never attended. Ha!


6 posted on 10/14/2019 4:33:05 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

When there is seldom any real consequence for cheating, you get more of it. For many, ‘Virtue’ remains dominant when the opportunity for ‘Vice’ is minimized.


7 posted on 10/14/2019 4:34:35 PM PDT by lee martell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

When one looks around and sees the so called ‘leaders’ lying and cheating and apparently getting away with it, the general consensus turns to ‘who really cares what someone in ‘my’ -bottom of the barrel- status does.


8 posted on 10/14/2019 4:36:45 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Here's the real shocker. According to Educational Testing Services, "only 35% of college officials believe cheating is a problem," this despite research showing that "73% of all test takers, including prospective graduate students and teachers, agree that most students do cheat at some point. 86% of high school students agreed. But college officials don't see a problem." That's the problem.

Why has cheating become a problem? Because millennial parents taught them to cheat. You need look no further than the pay for admissions scandal of Hollywood parents, but if you'd like to go deeper, think back to the Colorado Springs Easter Egg hunt ruined in 2011 by helicopter parents who jumped in to ensure that their little darlings got an egg. This sums it up nicely.

Lenny Watkins took his friend's son to the hunt in 2009 and said he can understand why a parent would step in.

"You better believe I'm going to help my kid get one of those eggs," he said. "I promised my kid an Easter egg hunt, and I'd want to give him an even edge."

Small wonder cheating is so rampant with parenting like that.
9 posted on 10/14/2019 4:37:01 PM PDT by Dahoser
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice
As someone who is in post-secondary education, I can tell you YES without question. Cheating has become acceptable to almost all students. Even those who won't indulge themselves will look the other way when others do.

You want to be able to trust the students but you know you can't. As my colleagues tells the students: "You can cheat your way to a job, but the problem is that if you don't learn the material, you won't keep that job."

10 posted on 10/14/2019 4:39:32 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Education: Why has cheating become an epidemic?

Because DemoRat Communists, Marxists, Fascists and Socialists are in complete control of American Education and Educators, and DemoRats ALWAYS cheat.

11 posted on 10/14/2019 4:40:51 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

A few years ago I read the line from a current student:

“I just cannot understand how a student can allow himself to fail when all you have to do is cheat.”


12 posted on 10/14/2019 4:50:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leaftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Because it costs too much to get an education and, quite often, you only have one chance to advance.

If we went back to apprenticeships and you could try to pass the tests repeatedly until you qualify, cheating would probably be reduced.


13 posted on 10/14/2019 4:52:01 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: abigkahuna

Cheater.


14 posted on 10/14/2019 4:53:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: CommerceComet
""You can cheat your way to a job, but the problem is that if you don't learn the material, you won't keep that job."

Not if you go into the "public" sector. In that case when they find out you are clueless they just hire more or promote you out of the picture but you keep the job and income, retirement and all the perks.

15 posted on 10/14/2019 4:59:00 PM PDT by precisionshootist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: abigkahuna

At my college you’d have been kicked out long before the final and not had your tuition refunded either. That’s why some college degrees mean more than others.


16 posted on 10/14/2019 5:00:06 PM PDT by babble-on
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD9a-iJAbqM


17 posted on 10/14/2019 5:00:40 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Bill

Clinton


18 posted on 10/14/2019 5:02:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Because progressivism is so weak that anything run by the progressive agenda, as is our education system, must by necessity cheat and lie as often as possible.

If progressivism had any value, it would offer the freedom to be honest.


19 posted on 10/14/2019 5:05:59 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Cheating is always wrong, but doing so in basket weaving 101 is less of a problem than in, say, Engineering or Medical school.


20 posted on 10/14/2019 5:12:31 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson