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People have such weird logic. When 80% of the population is criminalized, we see that as a surefire sign of a bad government. But that completely changes when t
by chc 14y ago
People have such weird logic. When 80% of the population is criminalized, we see that as a surefire sign of a bad government. But that completely changes when the population is "students" — then it's all their fault and the administration is just helpless against all these lazy kids.
Without necessarily absolving the students of responsibility for their actions, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that rampant cheating represents a failure on the school's part.
- danielweber 14y agoIf anything, it means the school didn't bring the hammer down soon/hard enough on smaller incidents of cheating. The surest way to get most of your students to cheat is for the cheaters to get ahead of the class. The non-cheaters will eventually crumple just to keep up.
- chc 14y agoI actually agree with this. I'm not saying it's definitely the case (never been to Harvard — the closest I've got is a friend who went to Wellesley), but rampant cheating is generally a sign of either poor communication or perverse incentives.