CB> From _The New York Teacher_, March 4, 1996
CB> "What's Wrong with this Picture!"
CB>     "Consider two trends from a survey of 3,351 high -achieving 
CB> high-school
CB> students nationwide.
CB>     According to a Who's Who Among American High School Students, the 
CB> students think the "decline of moral and social values" is the 
CB> greatest 
CB> crisis confronting the nation, and the number one problem facing 
CB> teen-agers.
CB>     Meanwhile, 76 percent of the students admitted cheating on 
CB> homework, 
    A better question would be "Why not cheat on homework"?
    How many teachers just assign homework without correcting it in detail?  
(I had such teachers, and one was immortalized by D.C.-area HS teacher T.C. 
Williams in his book.)
    When a teacher just checks to see that kids hand in _something_ and marks 
only that it was turned in, there's every incentive to cheat.  When a student 
finds a teacher only looks at the final number on a math question and ignores 
how the student supposedly got there, the teacher might as well ask students 
to copy from one another or otherwise cheat.
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