My class in middle school was 80% honor students - each and every one of their presentations was Wikipedia copied verbatim. Looking at the results of the final

My class in middle school was 80% honor students - each and every one of their presentations was Wikipedia copied verbatim. Looking at the results of the final exam it should have been at most 20%. To this day I wonder what kind of upbringing they had that they felt the need to cut corners like that at such an early age.