Is cheating a double standard?

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My nursing school took great measures to fix grades when not happy with outcomes. However, this nursing school took great measures to prevent students from cheating. They had a zero tolerance policy towards cheating and any students caught cheating would almost certainly be dismissed from the program. The clever, deceitful, and crooked way in which final grades were fixed at the conclusion of the final semester of the two year associates of science degree in nursing program was a grade fixing scandal of monumental proportions. I was dismissed from the program as a result of not achieving the 75 required to pass the final course of the semester only to have insider information disclose to me that 28 of 79 students initially failed the course with zero "A" students. Ultimately, only 5 unfortunate students including me were not passed and graduated and I strongly believe that I was used as a cover up by the school for their grade fixing scandal just so the school could make the outcome of the semester look realistic. Is cheating a double standard?

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I'm not sure why you feel that you would receive closure from a public forum. What do you think we can provide, exactly?

I think you need to pursue further counseling, and move forward. Even your screen name is related to this case. STOP obsessing and move on with your life. You have your settlement, do something productive with it.

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Haikus are therapeutic and known to provide closure. :devil:

twenty eight students-

did they really fail? fiction!

time to close the thread.

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...still looking for answers...I want

closure...we all want closure in these kind

of situations

None of us were there

we are first hand unaware.

Is there really anything that those of here can do,

that will ever bring closure to you?

Time to let it go...

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How can an instructor issue a student a failing grade without defining the passing

standard? The passing standard of a course in the theory portion of a

nursing course is entirely OBJECTIVE!

In this case the school made the passing

standard entirely SUBJECTIVE. They passed the students they WANTED to pass and failed the students they

didn't want to pass IRRESPECTIVE of

test scores. This type of passing standard is ok for grading the clinical portion of a course as there is a subjective element to it. If a clinical instructor does not like you he/she can come up with any reason for failing you and you are simply out of luck.

But to use a subjective passing standard

in the theory portion of a nursing course

which the passing standard is entirely test score and "numbers" based is fraudulent.

Students with 72.2 final averages passed and students with 72.5 final averages failed. The actual final grades issued and the school's claim that the passing standard was 75 is a GIANT misrepresentation of

the truth! YES, they did LOWER the passing standard but they NEVER defined

it.

Seriously, done is done! Time to move on

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OP why don't you avail yourself of the large amount of expertise and experience here to help you formulate your plan for the future?

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twenty eight students-

did they really fail? fiction!

time to close the thread.

Awesome!! (although this was not the type of closure I was referring to :laugh:)

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I am still convinced that this "event" never happened. Maybe the OP can prove me wrong...

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Can't close the thread, I just got more popcorn. And a slurpee.

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twenty eight students-

did they really fail? fiction!

time to close the thread.

I wish I could "like" you haiku twice! Brilliant :)

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...still looking for answers...I want

closure...we all want closure in these kind

of situations

And you expect to find it here? I don't get it :no:

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I don't get what closure you are looking for. There are 2 things here. One is that you won a settlement. That should tell you right there that the school was in the wrong or they wouldn't have had to pay you a dime. There is no answer as to why its fair or whatever because the legal system deemed it was not fair and therefore you won your suit against them. Second, whether the passing standard was defined or not is irrelevant. Someone passed with a 72 and you were failed with a 74. The problem is that you still failed. I'm sorry peiple who did worse than you were passed so the school could save face, but in t he end you still failed. The fact that people with worse grades were moved forward doesn't matter. Are you upset that other failures "passed" when you didn't. Yiu shoyldnt be. You need to focus onwhat you did wrong. No matter what YOU failed. THEY failed too. They were just "lucky" enough that the school wanted to fudge numbers and pass them. Trying to find some justification for what the school did or why other failures were let pass is not worth it. There will never be a good answer. If there was a legitimate reason or a "good" answer you wouldn't have won the settlement. You serioysly need to move on. Dwelling on this will keep you from seeking new oppirtunities to thrive in life. Stop letting this suck the life out if you. Ni one here can do that for you. You have to make the choice to move on.

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Can't close the thread, I just got more popcorn. And a slurpee.

Who said close this thread? I got the bad for you popcorn with extra butter. Yummy....

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