I’m went to school at a time where everything was curved.
In that environment, you had to fight for every GPA point and were at a disadvantage of you were a stickler for academic integrity. In a 500 person lecture, ~25 were getting a 4. It’s easy to be on a high horse at an Ivy school, where people who don’t show get gentleman’s Cs and the average GPA is like a 3.6.
Obviously this situation in the article wasn’t that. But I think the professor did a good job of empathizing with the students and accepting that there are varying types of motivations.
Indeed. But that’s not how it’s presented to high schoolers. Parents, secondary school administrators, and post-secondary school employees are all complicit.
the system is not rigged, going to college at all is a privilege that many don't get
i can't imagine trying to justify cheating with this logic while simultaneously there are more honorable people scavenging their lunch from the trash
i get it though, online school that resulted from covid is some of the worst instruction. fortunately that's coming to an end