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Old 06-08-2009, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio school district says it uncovered a cheating scheme so pervasive that it had to cancel graduation ceremonies for its 60 seniors — but will still mail their diplomas.

A senior at Centerberg High School accessed teachers' computers, found tests, printed them and distributed them to classmates, administrators said.

Ohio school cancels graduation over cheating - USATODAY.com
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Old 06-08-2009, 12:51 PM
 
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Uggg.....kids just don't get it. I can't tell you how many times I have caught kid's cheating, and had to explain to them you were cheating and that is a zero. They will just look at you, and be shocked that looking at another's students paper is cheating. Unfortunately it is HUGE problem in schools, and I can't believe that the kids's in the story above got away with it for so long. Shame on the teacher for not keeping a better eye out. The next generation scares me.......
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Old 06-08-2009, 02:32 PM
 
Location: Rockland County New York
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Cheating has become the American way of life. Every level of out society sees success at the price of cheating as acceptable behavior. I guess these kids are off to a good start.
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Old 06-08-2009, 05:43 PM
 
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Cheating is bad, yes. But what the hell is up with schools trying to cancel graduation ceremonies? It always ends the same way. Someone contacts the press, people point out how wrong it is to cancel ceremonies cause of a few bad kids and then the school submits to their bad press and lets the ceremonies continue.
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Old 06-08-2009, 05:51 PM
 
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one student who used the test still failed.
haha!
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Old 06-08-2009, 07:45 PM
 
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Some parents angry about the cancellation are organizing an unofficial graduation ceremony.
Jeanette Lamb, whose son is a senior at the school, asked the Centerburg School Board to reconsider its decision to cancel graduation. The board declined.
"At that point I did tell them that commencement would continue, it will be at the park, I will put it together and their presence wasn't welcome," Lamb told WTVN radio in Columbus. Lamb said parents and members of the community have offered help.

Nobody has ever been scarred for life by missing their graduation. Frankly, if I were the parent of one of these graduating seniors, I'd want to know why my child stood by and said/did nothing when there was a cheating scheme this widespread.

Good values you're demonstrating there, parents of Centerburg-- entitlement over ethics.
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Old 06-09-2009, 05:04 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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Hey, what did folks expect when we went to "cooperative learning"?
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Old 06-09-2009, 09:34 AM
 
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Some parents angry about the cancellation are organizing an unofficial graduation ceremony.
Jeanette Lamb, whose son is a senior at the school, asked the Centerburg School Board to reconsider its decision to cancel graduation. The board declined.
"At that point I did tell them that commencement would continue, it will be at the park, I will put it together and their presence wasn't welcome," Lamb told WTVN radio in Columbus. Lamb said parents and members of the community have offered help.

Nobody has ever been scarred for life by missing their graduation. Frankly, if I were the parent of one of these graduating seniors, I'd want to know why my child stood by and said/did nothing when there was a cheating scheme this widespread.

Good values you're demonstrating there, parents of Centerburg-- entitlement over ethics.

AGREED! Who cares! It's only a high school graduation. Anyone can graduate high school with minimum efforts. I just don't understand why graduating from high school is a cause for celebration. Congratulations, you've met the bare minimum of being classified with the term "educated". Whoopee?!
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Old 06-09-2009, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Hollywood)
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Hey, what did folks expect when we went to "cooperative learning"?
BINGO! This is exactly the problem.
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Old 06-10-2009, 06:27 AM
 
Location: In the north country fair
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I have no idea what "cooperative learning" is but, much as I loathe cheating, I think that it is symptomatic of a larger problem--reliance on test scores and extracurriculars by colleges when evaluating potential candidates, as well as a lack of character education. When was the last time a college accepted someone for being ethical? People assume ethics is a given. But in a teenager's mind, there is a huge incentive to cheat--assuming you don't get caught--b/c it yields positive results.

Furthermore, it's disturbing how many other kids accepted and participated with this student's unethical behavior, and that they were performing so poorly that they needed to cheat. IMHO, these kids were feeling the pressure of "making the grade" and decided to do what they needed to do in order to succeed--a philosophy ("Do whatever it takes") I have heard spoken over and over again in our society as a positive refrain. As a society, we have placed a very high premium on success, and virtually ignored character and ethics. When was the last time you saw someone make a million or be rewarded in any way for being ethical?

If we teach our kids to do "whatever it takes," then that's exactly what they'll do. And of course they're going to be shocked when they are reprimanded; they have no idea they are doing anything wrong b/c they're only focus is to "succeed." How frightening is THAT?!
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