Because many of our leaders have cheated and to this day lie, and have set the example.
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, the Democrat Party.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.Small wonder cheating is so rampant with parenting like that."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."
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."
Because DemoRat Communists, Marxists, Fascists and Socialists are in complete control of American Education and Educators, and DemoRats ALWAYS cheat.
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.”
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.
Bill
Clinton
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.
Cheating is always wrong, but doing so in basket weaving 101 is less of a problem than in, say, Engineering or Medical school.
Civilizations crumble from within. History repeats itself.
Because our youth have been taught that unless you’re caught, it isn’t unlawful. The crime or act did not happen until a judge says it did even though the judges admit to determining law based upon opinion rather than fact, or even the determination, of the application of US laws.
A perfect example is SCOTUS judge Ruth Ginsburg who has openly admitted to the use of foreign laws in her decisions.
In a comment by Judge Roberts on this topic, If were relying on a decision from a German judge about what our Constitution means, no president accountable to the people appointed that judge and no Senate accountable to the people confirmed that judge, and yet hes playing a role in shaping the law that binds the people in this country. So it is happening at the highest level. And our youth are being taught that a little wrong is all it is if it is not punished or proven so.
rwood
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms.
Other states have never literacy-tested teachers, meaning they know they’ll get the same result.
The fact that a large percentage of government school teachers can’t even read probably has a lot to do with the cheating.
Because our culture has “progressed” to a point where it is becoming morally bankrupt.