Academic Cheating in FHC series

Do you have a lot of students that cheat?  “I say that I trust everyone until I have reason not to. I am sure I have students who, under the cloak of darkness perhaps, cheat. Maybe they don’t think they're cheating, or maybe they do know it and they're fine with the risk of reward. I'm sure, like all teachers, I have students who cheat on quizzes or tests. I think I've structured my class in a ...

Do you have students that cheat in Online? “I’m going to say probably. The trouble for me is that there is no easy way for me to catch them. With online courses, the only way I am going to catch cheating is if I catch them red-handed.” Have you caught anyone cheating so far this year? “No, I haven’t.” Why do you think students cheat? “I would say that students might cheat because they don't se...

Do you know a lot of people who cheat? “No.” What do you think is the most common form of cheating? “Online, definitely.” How would you define academic cheating? “I guess, plagiarizing would be very big for cheating. If you look at an answer and then completely change it, like it still is the same concept but completely different wording, then I think that is okay. But as s...

My first question is why? An easy answer would be to succeed. But how are you really succeeding? Yes, you’re getting that good grade, and yes, you’re acing that test, but is that really you?  No, of course not. You aren’t getting anywhere in actuality.  Despite its initial goal, high school has trouble preparing you with the workload that college dumps onto you. So you might be se...

Pride. Tradition. Excellence. These three characteristics are core values that permeate the halls and classrooms of FHC. Pride ascends the bleachers during Friday night football games and student assemblies, passing each enthusiastic student avidly singing along to the school’s fight song. Tradition is passed down through subsequent classes with each homecoming crown given, each state champion...

According to the Plagiarism Organization, 59% of high school students—43,000 surveyed in total—admit to cheating on a test. That’s 59 in every 100 students and, given that FHC has roughly 1,200 students, that 59% translates to about at least 708 students in this school cheating on a test at least once. Those are just global generalizations, but it’s something known to the entire student bod...

95% of high school students cheat. A 2012 study by the Josephson Institute’s Center for Youth Ethics found that an astounding number of students have cheated in some capacity, whether it was on a homework assignment, paper, or test. There is no way that true, right?  Yet, the year before I entered AP US History, students got busted for cheating on homework assignments. Last year, Madame ...