Remote learning led to rampant cheating at NYC’s Stuyvesant High School

[Kamaji]

Remote learning led to rampant cheating at NYC’s Stuyvesant High School

By Selim Algar
February 1, 2022

Stuyvesant High School students cheated at an elite level during remote learning.

Remote learning led to routine cheating at the city’s most competitive high school, where 79 percent of last year’s senior class copped to academic dishonesty at some point, according to a report.

A 2021 Stuyvesant graduate told The Post that working from home simply made it too tempting to cheat.

“What was there to stop you from just looking up an answer?” she asked. “You were on your own, there was no one watching. It’s kind of obvious.”

In interviews with Stuyvesant High School’s newspaper, The Spectator, students said distance learning made cutting corners a breeze.

“A lot of people didn’t actually learn as much last year because of how easy it was to cheat on things, which is sort of sad,” a sophomore told the paper.

A Stuyvesant senior said distance learning relied on student conscience to suppress scholastic skullduggery.

“Remote learning changed the playing field,” the student said. “It was closer to [an] honor system, so I felt that most people were more likely to push the rules a bit.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/02/01/remote-learning-bred-rampant-cheating-at-nycs-stuyvesant-high-school/

[Kamaji]

That's as much a sad commentary on the students themselves as it is on the state of the schools and the education system.

[Smokin Joe]

That's as much a sad commentary on the students themselves as it is on the state of the schools and the education system.

In a Bisarro world where President stole the election, plagiarized speeches, lies incontinently, where thieves get off scott free, what is the object lesson?

"If you are honest, you're a sucka!"

I don't believe that, and I seriously doubt many who frequent these pages do, but where is the incentive to be honest, to have integrity or a sense of honor, or the shame in not doing so?
You won't find it in most media (they lie, too), and if the kids don't go to church, they aren't getting it there, so it falls back on parents and teachers who often fall short in the integrity department themselves.

Hypocrisy is not a good teacher.

[Sighlass]

Meanwhile in Baltimore, 80% of the seniors can't read at a 2nd grade level.

[Smokin Joe]

Meanwhile in Baltimore, 80% of the seniors can't read at a 2nd grade level.

That's one way to keep them from cheating!

[Kamaji]

That's one way to keep them from cheating!