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Opinion
Could
schools be facing a much bigger problem?
May
19, 2004
Some
South Carolinians are great apostles of polls. That’s OK. When
used properly, polls can be extremely valuable tools.
There
are others, however, who don’t get all that excited about
polls. They figure poll results can be manipulated.
Politicians that use polls as a main ingredient in election
campaigns surely have contributed to that overall suspicion by
the man on the street. Some of those politicians convince some
voters they can never make a decision without first taking a
poll.
In fact, polls in politics have been used so much to
try to influence voters it would be unusual if people were not
suspicious ….. at least about intentions.
BE
THAT AS IT MAY, though, results of a new poll just
might demand our attention. That poll says that more than
seven in ten teenagers say students in their schools cheat on
tests, and almost as many say cheating on homework is also
widespread.
A third of the students polled admit to
cheating.
Regardless of how we may feel about polls, the
results of this one should not be dismissed without further
study. We know there are many problems in and around
education, from funding to discipline. However, if cheating is
as wide spread as indicated, we may have a bigger problem in
education than anyone even thinks.
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