Cheating in the Classroom

Its funny there is so much unethical behavior in the classroom makes me wonder if it bleeds over into the workplace even with HIPPA set up to protect the patient. I know cheating was rampant in business school which helps me identify exactly why our economy is in the trouble

I agree that cheating is pretty rampant in schools... and something should be done to curve it, however..... As far as shutting cell phones off without even the option of placing them on vibrate, as an adult student and mother, I will never, ever render myself completely unavailable to my child in case of emergency and I mean never. if that should land me in the deans office to explain myself well then it must be done but I am an adult and will not be told that I can't ensure my childs safety period

My question is, "Why would you cheat? You need to know the information and pass the boards."

It is sad to realize how much cheating goes on. I went to school going on 30 years ago, so I guess either I just wasn't aware of it or it wasn't as active as it is now.
I have one thought though- no matter how much these people cheat- they can't cheat while taking boards can they? I know taking boards is different in some states- you can use a computer, but I thought there had to be another person in the same room as the test taker???
It just seems that if a student is going to cheat in school, then they will fail the boards, no?
Maybe I am not 'with it"?
I think people who cheat in school will cheat at work also. It is just the way they are throughout life- a slacker at everything they do.
Let me know about the boards- don't you sit with strict monitoring anymore?
I took my boards in Michigan, and if you had to use the bathroom, the doors to the toilet stalls were taken off, and a monitor actually went into the bathroom with you....

One of my bestfriends got into Nursing school by cheating.

Out of highschool we didn't have all of the pre-req's to apply to the Nursing program here in Ontario, so we took one semester of a Pre-Health program at a local college.

We both took Intro Anatomy, and Communications.

Our anatomy class has 6 tests spread out through the semester. She passed the first one with a 60%, failed the next two. The last three she was "sick" for, so she didn't write them on the actual exam day, so she'd get to write the same exam, within a week after she missed it. That's a poor policy the college had. Anyways the day after the exam the teacher would give the exams back to review, then collect them at the end of class, so a friend of ours would write down all the correct answers for the exams, then give them to my bestfriend to use when writing the test later.

She got 100% on the last three exams by cheating that way. Teacher didn't suspect a thing. She ended up with a 88% in the course, and got accepted to Nursing right away. If she hadn't cheated, she'd probably not be in Nursing school right now. People will do anything these days, but she's since matured, we were only 19 years old at the time.