TTP | An Obvious Epidemic?
Cheating -
January 6th, 2012
Cheating is wrong, but admit it… without it we’d be nowhere. There’d be no United States, no Wall Street, no sports — hell, even Arnie Schwarzenegger would be short a kid or two.
The practice of cheating is horrifically prolific and vast. Not only do some students cheat to get into good schools, some teachers help their own students cheat to keep their flippin’ jobs. It’s disgusting, unacceptable and immoral.
We’re not saying all of that because we’re saints, but rather bitter. Had it not been for Frieda Barnes' floppy triceps blocking her paper in Trig and Physics, we probably could have gotten into MIT.
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74%
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Of high school students admitted to cheating on an exam in 2011 per the Josephson Institute of Ethics. Chances one of the Josephson researchers fudged the data to make this number pop? Unknown. |
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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Plato, Greek philosopher
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Known as Play to the ladies, he was also voted worst cashier by his classmates at the school’s lemonade stand.
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probity
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noun. the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
Used in a sentence: The probability of Priscilla’s probity peaked when she was caught pumping the lead from her prize student’s pencil.
Pulitzer Prize Winner Alex Haley paid author Harold Courlander $650,000, apologized, and also acknowledged plagiarizing part of Courlander’s book, The African, for his own novel, Roots.
Not Just in the Classroom
| Sumo wrestlers get silicone head implants to meet height requirements. |
| Fisherman stores bass on line behind duck blind in effort to win tournament. |
| Marathoner ensures he still has his kick at the end of the race, takes bus. |
| Dad lies about kid’s birth certificate so he can dominate Little League World Series. |
| Bernie. |
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It’s not just a problem today, folks. Cheating has been around since the first caveman convinced the second that the mammoth’s hairy balls cooked up just as tasty as the tenderloin. Never want to be lied to again? Good luck. |
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