The Cheating Culture – Reflection

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Write a thoughtful and clear paper on the article “A Cheating Crisis in America’s Schools”   Answer five of the eight questions listed below. Your paper must be double-spaced with a 12 point font, 1-inch margins, and a minimum of 2 pages in length. Do not include the entire question, just the question number. Questions 1. Why do students engage in academic dishonesty?  Are they aware they are being dishonest? 2. Defend or refute the statement: “The prevailing attitude about getting into college is do what you have to; whatever it takes to get in is okay.” 3. Defend or refute the statement made by the business student “Everything is about the grade that you got in the class. Nobody looks at how you got it.” 4. Mary, one of the students quoted, says “A lot of people think it’s like you’re not really [in college] to learn anything. You’re just there to learn the system.” What are your thoughts about Mary’s statement? 5.  Michael Josephson, a survey organizer quoted in the article says students learn cheating behavior from adults when he says “They’re basically decent kids whose values are being totally corrupted by a world which is sanctioning stuff that even they know is wrong. But they can’t understand why everybody allows it.” What are your thoughts about his statement? 6. Those who believe in the concept of “Moral Relativity” believe it is perfectly okay to cheat in some situations and in some courses.  Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why not? 7. Which is more important to you, honor/integrity or grades?  Why?  Consider your dishonesty experience.  How does your situation support or contradict what is more important to you? 8. A survey revealed that half of nearly 4,000 faculty members ignored cheating at least once. Why do you think these faculty ignored cheating? How do you think this ignorance affected students in these classes?