According to the Amarillo College Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook, “... scholastic dishonesty shall constitute a violation of ... rules and regulations and is punishable as prescribed by Board policies. Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism and collusion.”
“Cheating on a test” shall include: “Copying from another student’s test paper. Using test materials not authorized by the person administering the test. Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator. Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an un-administered test.
“The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of the un-administered test. Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one’s self, to take a test. Bribing another person to obtain an un-administered test or information about an un-administered test.”
The handbook is clear about what is and what is not cheating. It spells out for students what the administration defines as cheating.
Yet every semester, it inevitably happens that some students think they are smarter than any other student who has ever cheated before.
They think they will never be caught and, when they are, not only do they destroy their own academic careers, they cause everyone else to suffer with tighter regulations and higher scrutiny from professors.
Everyone student here is an adult and should be treated as such.
Even if a student is not 18 yet, this is a college. Teachers shouldn’t have to spend test days walking up and down the aisles making sure students aren’t sharing answers.
That is ridiculous. To get into many universities or colleges, students had to take the SAT, ACT or other tests. You just can’t just get into a school without any intelligence at all. Well, maybe if you play football, and we all know a situation where that something like that has happened, but that’s another subject altogether.
This isn’t elementary school. No one is going to hold your hand and give you the answers.
Cheating doesn’t just end at education; it flows up and infects every part of society.
From politics to religion to the legal system and even the entertainment industry, no one is safe from another person thinking he or she deserves the recognition or prestige or even answers more than anyone else.
The worst part, though, of this whole cheating fiasco is that most people are too worried about their social standing to inform anyone of power when a person around them cheats.
None of us wants to be snitches or have our peers mistrust us.
Yet we enable deceitful people to continue being deceitful.
The world won’t end if your biology class stops liking you after you say something about the person next to you always trying to read what you put on the quiz.
No one is going to shank you in class for refusing to give them the answers to the homework. Th cheaters are only hurting themselves. They are paying good money for an education they’re not getting. They are better off burning the money than being here if they are just hoping to cheat their way through.
As a culture, we need to learn how to stand up for ourselves, and not just in the privacy of our thoughts or within our circle of friends. The people we allow to keep cheating won’t ever change their ways if we say nothing.
According to the Amarillo College Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook, “... scholastic dishonesty shall constitute a violation of ... rules and regulations and is punishable as prescribed by Board policies. Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism and collusion.”
“Cheating on a test” shall include: “Copying from another student’s test paper. Using test materials not authorized by the person administering the test. Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator. Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an un-administered test.
“The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of the un-administered test. Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one’s self, to take a test. Bribing another person to obtain an un-administered test or information about an un-administered test.”
The handbook is clear about what is and what is not cheating. It spells out for students what the administration defines as cheating.
Yet every semester, it inevitably happens that some students think they are smarter than any other student who has ever cheated before.
They think they will never be caught and, when they are, not only do they destroy their own academic careers, they cause everyone else to suffer with tighter regulations and higher scrutiny from professors.
Everyone student here is an adult and should be treated as such. Even if a student is not 18 yet, this is a college. Teachers shouldn’t have to spend test days walking up and down the aisles making sure students aren’t sharing answers...
Cheating infects all social levels
Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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