On the heels of the computer breach, a cyber security firm from Washington, D.C. It was determined that the integrity of all other THS students' transcripts and records was not compromised." 3 email that was sent to district parents, Tenafly High School principal James Morrison wrote that "the School Counseling Department reviewed all transcripts to confirm that the identified hack was limited to the subject of the investigation. "The students go on to college and life believing this behavior is acceptable." In a study by the Josephson Institute of Ethics in Playa del Rey, California, 51 percent of the 23,000 high schoolers interviewed admitted they had cheated on a test and felt "satisfied" with their behavior.Ĭheating is rampant and high schools don't care very much or else they would do something to discourage it," said Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute, which develops services and materials to increase ethical commitment and practice in society. It's not as hard as you might think to use them to get around systems," said Gary Davis, Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAfee, which develops digital security tools for computers and mobile devices. "There's a ubiquity of devices and we are always using them. In a survey of over 4,000 high school students worldwide, the Santa Clara, California-based computer security firm McAfee found that more than 60 percent said they knew of other students who use electronic and mobile devices to cheat. "This is an indicator to us all that these kids need help and guidance with regard to managing their stress." "He went to such lengths to change what he perceived to be a problem," she said. Matteson asserted that the senior who allegedly cheated was clearly motivated by academic pressure. "She never gets a chance to one hundred percent de-stress and walk away," Matteson said, equating the culture of pressure on students to the stresses adults cope with in today's workplace. Her daughter, Emily, does homework on weekends, Thanksgiving, and over winter break, she said, adding that it has impacted family vacations. "When my daughter got sick, she felt so pressured about missing class that she went to school anyway because she felt she couldn't take a sick day from school," said Matteson. Ilana Matteson, a mother of a Tenafly High School junior, said it's difficult to find the balance when parents want a competitive school district as well as children with a healthy lifestyle. In an environment in which students feel stressed or that they can't measure up to everyone else, cheating may be more likely to occur, Janssen said. "It's a myth that reducing the stress would lower the level of the school ranking or quality of education." "There's too much negative and destructive stress in the school in general," she said, adding that teachers should curtail the amount and kinds of homework they assign in order to decrease the stress level among students. Katie Janssen, is a co-founder of RHOWR (Rational Homework Review), a group of Tenafly Public School parents who say they are "concerned about the role of homework among the stressors impacting students." Janssen, a parent of a 10th-grader at Tenafly High School, asserted that students at the school are under too much pressure. "Kids are subconsciously confusing what's ethical today," Kipiani said.Ī group of Tenafly parents has banded together to address a growing culture of student pressure. Parents and teachers unknowingly support a cheating culture by giving positive reinforcement to students for a good grade, rather than doing what is right and putting forth effort, Kipiani said. "They can take a quick picture with their cellphone and send it to their peers." "The ease of cheating is much greater now," said Kipiani, who in January will launch Class A Tutoring, a mobile application that will allow students to request a tutor on demand. Cheating is also easier in today's high tech world than it was years ago when students had to peer over their shoulders at their classmate's test paper, or write test answers on their arms, she said.
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