Is business just for cheaters?
In a world where business men are getting fame for undermining their corporations, it isn't a wonder why college business students feel they to can get away with the same. With examples being made by Martha Stewart, and Enron executives, it seems like cheating is just an easy way to get ahead. Yahoo reported that business majors are most likely to cheat.This is a sad thought, that people are using cheating to get ahead, but it doesn't suprise me.
At Western University, in Michigan, the school decided this semester to quit using clickers. The clickers could be used to take quizzes and show attendence. They were a good way to easily take attendence and quizzes. Teachers realized they needed to stop using this, when students would give their clickers to other students to take their quizzes and other participatory grades. Attendence was at a high, yet class test scores when done without the clicker were lower. Also they felt some students were leaving their clickers at home.
This really bothers me. It bothers me that people who don't cheat are getting lower grades and probably worse jobs in the future, yet people that cheat get ahead. Cheating prepares them for their life as a big CEO as in the case of Enron. I mean cheating does get you ahead, but at what expense? You never learn the knowledge, and you never truly gain anything, at that point school becomes nothing more than middle ground between childhood and adulthood, without the lessons. I know not all business students and business students aren't the only ones guilty of cheating. It really opens your eyes, if yahoo has to do an article on it, how popular is it exactly? How many people cheat to get ahead in school? This to me is a scary thought.
Have any of you had a lot of cheating go on in your schools? What were the repercussions? What do you think of cheating in business, is it overdramaticized?
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By Jenni - Posted on October 28th, 2006
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Not over dramatized at all! We actually had to read an essay about this, some famous author or other wrote an essay on cheating when she was in college and it got published in, among other things, The Bedford Reader, which we use in my dual credit Eng110 class. Her viewpoint was that cheating is a big problem, and it leads to more corrupt people in power, but that cheating isn't going to stop until it's stopped at the source--in schools. Her viewpoint was that if teachers didn't have to teach for the grade, the test scores, etc, and rather for the knowledge, what would become most important to the students is learning, not the end result, so they'd focus on the means and not just the end. To a certain extent, I find myself agreeing. Everyone's like "oh it's just cheating no big deal", but it IS a big deal, because of the way it undermines the system, and starts out small and then get large. Great post.
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Thanks yea that does sound a way but no one is really willing to take accountablity and say hey maybe we should do something when it's so much easier not to.