I found one comment on NYT particularly interesting: > There is a simple solution to this problem. You cheat, you get expelled. It doesn't matter how serious t

I found one comment on NYT particularly interesting: > There is a simple solution to this problem. You cheat, you get expelled. It doesn't matter how serious the cheating is, you get expelled. As long as schools, school administrators and parents condone cheating through insignificant punishments, it will continue. I think this policy, while nice in theory, would fall flat in practice. If a teacher catches a student cheating, they would be highly dissuaded from reporting it or punishing the student. Imagine if the accepted Ivy League student represented in the article was caught by the teacher with this policy in place. The teacher would know that the student would almost certainly be barred from the Ivy League school, and have his/her academic career severely tarnished. What kind of teacher would take this action? It might be the 'right thing' to do, but it's also pretty heartless, and would no doubt only strengthen the "fight the system" mentality the students already have.