Re: Please Help me Out...
Roedy Green wrote:
There is a new grade in Canada, below F, F-D for failure with academic
dishonesty.
In the United States, for university-level at least, it seems to me that
academic dishonesty is always at least an automatic failure. In more
than a few universities I've seen, it's pretty much an expulsion if you
are caught and exhaust your appeals. Then again, these are also
universities in the South, which tends to culturally view itself as more
honorable than other parts of the US.
I don't know what penalties are like in India, though, which seems to be
where the poster is from.
It is so odd people spend tens of thousands of dollars on an
education, then do everything they can to avoid learning anything.
In the educational environment I grew up with (I went to a selective
high school), academic dishonesty probably wasn't a case of avoiding
learning. It was more likely a factor of people needing (or at least,
thinking that they need) to get phenomenal grades for various reasons,
be it societal pressure or perceived pressure or personal gain.
Consider, for example, that one of the more high-profile incidents was a
cheating ring on an examination (the National French Examination) that
was totally optional, did not count for a grade, and where the only
prize was a T-shirt and a medal. Maybe a little pin as well, I don't
remember. The only explanations for cheating I can think up would
involve either be an uncontrollable need to cheat for good grades or the
ability to add another line to a college application.
I would say more, but to do so would stretch the lines of political
correctness and my knowledge of the facts at hand.
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