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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a TJ parent.  I've spent the last 5 years seeing and hearing TJ kids called cheaters, and thought-- all those bright talented kids, why would they risk something so stupid and unethical.  The TJ cheaters thing must be sour grapes. Now I have a kid at TJ and owe DCUM an apology.  It turns out the DCUM cheating rhetoric actually understates the problem-- as my DD reports it, as TJ hangout communities (TJ Vents and RealTalk TJ) report it,  as the school disciple numbers report it.  And the most appalling piece is that kids (accurately, IMO) realize that there is a greater risk to not cheating in a class where grades are curved and taking a GPA hit than there is to cheating and being caught.

I went to a college and a grad school that both expelled kids for their first honor code violation.  At the time (20 years ago) I assumed that was standard.  It makes me wonder if my college and grad school are unusual?  Or if post-secondary schools have eased off this policy in the last decade?  Or if kids leave HS and end up getting expelled from college?

At any rate, TJ is amazing in so many ways. But in this area, it is just unacceptable. I think they are playing toss with a grendade that has the pin pulled out. At some point, either this will leak to the press, or TJ kids will get caught cheating in major science fairs (it is known that kids spend 10K or more to "buy" projects), or there will be a schandal involving college admissions, or TJ admissions, or the SATs or PSATs or something else in a public setting.

I hope the new administration gets a handle on it very quickly.  Dr. Glazer has cared more about TJ's ranking and reputation than doing the hard work of starting to solve the problem. The problem is there are some very vocal, very involved parents who do not support a crackdown on cheating, and who will attack an admin who imposes severe sanctions.  It makes me think Dr. Glazer missed an opportunity to do something about it this year, since he announced his resignation last year, and is a "lame duck."

It is a nice thing is to see how many TJ kids became fed up with their classmates cheating this year. I think the size and scale of the sophomore cheating ring, and the Admin's failure to ever fully shut it down, pushed a button in a lot of kids. There is more reporting, and a lot of pushback from the kids not cheating. It hasn't accomplished anything, because TJ is on a cheater catch and release program right now.  But the kids have lost patience. My bet is it comes to a public, nasty head by the end of next year-- because the TJ kids forced the issue (leaked to the WaPo, staged a demonstration, started publishing the names of kids who commit honor code violations, or otherwise made a loud public stink). [/quote]

+100

TJ Parent here. The TJ kids I know are frustrated with rampant cheating as well as the failure of Admin to hold cheaters accountable. Let's hope the new principal addresses the issue head on.[/quote]

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