Seventy-eight percent of Kennedy students have given into this temptation and cheated, according to a recent Torch poll. A or B averaged students have cheated, the highest percentage in the poll s 29-year history. One reason for this increase in cheating may be the rise of technology. Computers offer student another easy way out of doing assignments for themselves with the vast amount of information available online. Language arts teacher Eddie Tsang has caught student receiving answers to worksheets from friends via email.
Students have a variety of ways to cheat on homework and tests.
The most common methods, of course, are to look off another student s paper during an exam or to copy homework before class. Others opt to write answers on cheat sheets, desktops, or even on themselves. In language arts, they would copy down directly what they read from a book. The latter example of cheating is known as plagiarism, which includes taking a paper off the Internet, or copying sentences from a book or a peer s paper instead of writing the paper for one s self. For media specialist Wendy Ziegler, tracking these papers down is all in a day s work.