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Cheating is when a person misleads, deceives, or acts dishonestly on purpose. For kids, cheating may happen at school, at home, or while playing a sport. If a baseball team is for kids who are 8 or younger, it's cheating for a 9-year-old to play on the team and hit home run after home run.
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If you claim to be too lazy to do the work or are looking for an easy way out, cheating is not the solution. You may gain in the short-term with good grades, but in the end you will lose out. If you are caught cheating, you may be punished and perhaps kicked out of school. At the very least, you will be stigmatized as someone that can't be trusted. If you don't get caught, you will probably end up lacking needed knowledge and skill. You might ... become morally bankrupt.
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Most research shows that cheating begins to set in during the middle school years (ages 11 – 13). According to The Josephson Institute of Ethics, "The evidence is fairly clear that cheating begins in the middle school fairly seriously and escalates in the higher grades, 10th, 11th and 12th grades, because that's when the stakes are highest. It doesn't seem as if it's necessarily a dispositional thing, like they've never thought of cheating before. It's that there isn't much reason to cheat in the elementary school."
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Overall, 19% of teens say there is a "great deal" of cheating; 46% say "a fair amount"; and 34% say "not very much." The pervasiveness of cheating at school depends on whether teens profess to have cheated or not. 31% of self reporting cheaters think there is a "great deal" of cheating, compared to 9% of non-cheaters (51% and 42%, respectively, said there is a "fair amount" of cheating).
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This is the subcategory for articles on Cheating. The articles in this section concern cheating in an educational context only. Related articles of interest can be found in Coping with School and Dealing with Teachers.
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While cheating may be nothing new, it has become more common and often uses new technology. Parents and school officials face the hard question of what to do about dishonesty and the shortcuts to success that many students take.
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