Cheating to Pass

Tallahassee, FL – CNBC will be airing a special titled “Faking the Grade: Classroom Cheaters” that highlights students who cheat in class and teachers that allows the to get away with it. This topic has become a 21^st-century phenomenon.

The special that is airing tonight at nine will take a look at cheating in schools and universities. One of the topics it will touch on will be some of the teachers who change the grades of certain students to make their institutions look better.

Another part of the special shows how some parents are helping their children cheat to pass a class. While some parents are doing this unfortunate trend many do not agree with it.

Children cheating in class, wordpress.com

“We need to give kids the message that it’s the learning that’s important,” one mother said, “and it’s not passing these tests.”

While some parents are upset at this trend, cheating has become apart of the norm in some schools and universities because of the increase of cellphones and other technology devices. Some future education majors think it’s only going to get worse as technology increases.

“Cheating has been around forever and with new technology comes more cheating,” said Chimere Wright an elementary education student, “I don’t believe it will change sad to say.”

Recent scandals have been caused due to cellular device usage in the classroom. The special touches on how memorization of information will become even less of the norm rather than knowing where to go look it up on the Internet in the upcoming years.

By Alexis Frazier
With contribution from The New York Times
Photo, Adamtheteacher.wordpress.com, Carolsdaughter.com
Video,CNBCtv (YouTube channel)

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