Posted on 10/14/2011 6:39:45 AM PDT by IbJensen
Or in the case of the African and illegal alien students theirs is such a chaotic life foisted upon them by Lyndon Bird Johnson due to the Great Society! No daddy. Who needs the jerk anyway we got wefare checks and foo stamps and all the free love we can get sos we can have mo chillen sos we gets mo money from Uncle Whiskers. We never have to work for the rest of our lives.
We know nothing so we copy. If all us are stupid we in trouble.
Our country has problems with honesty from the top at the White House on down.
Excellent post.
We’re trying to make inner city schools fix a societal problem largely caused by liberal Democrat social policy.
No amount of money can do that.
Given the leftist drivel teachers/professors are pushing, I can understand why students would not have an issue since the teachers/professors are cheating students out of an education.
I will say that people cheated a lot when I was a kid.
Hard to say if it is worse now than it was.
Computers have brought about a huge increase in the detectability of cheating. It only looks like an epidemic because more people get caught now.
Another problem I have seen is the demand for “extracurricular activities”. You “must” have an art, a sport AND a volunteer activity to get into a college, to get scholarships, etc. It is supposed to show that you are “well rounded”. But with this busy schedule, how then do you keep up the great GPA? Cheating.
The entire problem goes MUCH deeper...due to the fact that, as a society, we have forgotten/ignored the Source of morality and goodness.
Cheating in America has now has been given the higheat stamp of approval.
The nation’s media, intellectuals, courts, government officials and organizations, communty leaders, school teachers, college professors and others have openly joined in perpetuating the fraudulent occupation of the White House by Barack Obama who cannot even provide a valid US Birth Certificate.
If cheating to get into the White House is accepted and approved, and if cheating to protect the imposter in the White House is accepted and approved, how can we expect weak minded people to get the message that cheating is bad?
Evereywhere they look, people they have been conditioned to respect as leaders are openly lying and cheating on the most significant issue of our time.
Reader’s Digest had a story very similar to this one a few months ago.
You have to be either a dirt poor minority flavor of the week or have parents with disposable time and income.
Latch-key kids (forced by taxation that drives BOTH parents to have to develop income to maintain a life) have ALL led to the destruction of honesty/integrity.
In the minority community; gang life, drugs, welfare, and "bling" are all that are sought....education is for "whitey".
What’s the poor little ‘born to be dummies’ to think when they know an esteemed president, today’s elder statesman received oral sex (BJs to you kids) in the oval orifice While speaking to a congressthing about the stupid war on Yugoslavia? That’s cheating, but then his wife thingy was abeddin’ Abeddin.
The current occupant of the White Hut has ‘cheat’ and ‘liar’ tattooed all over his scrawny body.
Students have seen nothing but the worst examples today in the people who are successful. From the political world to the corporate. Make bad/illegal business decisions, lie on balance sheets, get a bailout. Tell convincing lies on camera, get elected to public office.
GOD!
Father, Son and Holy Ghost!
Someday we’ll wish we learned and lived by those Ten Commandments, but for many it will be too late. When our lights go out we’ll know for certain that we shouldn’t have been doubting Thomases who believed that saving the fat-lipped suckerfish was better than allowing farmers the water they needed to feed us.
We were too busy building Iraq and Afghanistan’s infrastructure and ‘Democracy’ to take care of our own problems the largest of which loafs in the White Hut putting his #12s on the antique desk.
Yes, they did cheat when we were in school, as well. I used to regularly provide wrong answers to people looking over my shoulder.
However, I suspect the need and opportunity have gone up a lot since then.
Your typical middle school /junior high student has illegible writing, incoherent thinking, absolutely no clue about how to even guess at spelling, and lately an in your face attitude about their inability.
When I help grade their papers, I feel dishonest in giving them high marks for meeting the grading rubric provided (assuming they are in the top few percent who are able to do this), because they are still functionally illiterate and incapable.
If you can’t do any of these things by the time you are 10 to 12, odd are against your learning them ever.
When you find the need to actually write a paragraph and realize you can’t, the pressure is suddenly on to cheat. Add to this the despair the more intelligent (or cunning) might have over the realization that they have been cheated out of an education, and have no real hope of ever catching up within the system, it can almost become the rational seeming response. No one is teaching these children that they can become their own best teacher, and no one is teaching them the ethics that cause us to decry their choices - finding someone willing to help them cheat is almost a foregone conclusion for many of them.
Now - and I suspect that a few of these students realize this, adding to the impulse to cheat - if grades are meaningless, but still relevant, why should the methods used to obtain the desired ones matter?
I believe that as a rule, we were more competent in our generation, and so more confident that we could turn in something of our own and get a meaningful and acceptable grade for it.
“GOD!”
Exactly! And I STILL see good Americans putting FAR too much emphasis on political/economic solutions....instead of acknowledging where we went wrong and asking HIM to heal our land. When we shove God out of the picture, so to speak, we are also shoving His wonderful wisdom and protection away.
Hardship has a way of opening our eyes to the essential elements. Let’s pray that we will again have HIS vision for this nation....even if we must gain this vision through difficulty.
Cheating has existed for a long time. Only now coming to light.
Very curious that the more cheating comes to light, the more the Founding Fathers and American Institutions denigrated and criticized.
Just my opinion.
Narrator: “Was there a shadow of doubt on Ms. Grandy’s face when she looked at you?”
Crow: “Or was it lust?”
One of their best shorts ever. Nice one.
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