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[quote=Anonymous]For all the people defending extreme prepping , answer the question. Why is the DOCUMENTED cheating so bad? No the rumors of, but the email all TJ parents got this week saying an average of 30 substantiated cases a quarter this year. And if you have kids in the school, you know, and the kids certainly know, the cheating skews very heavily Asian.

So answer the question--- why?  Are the kids not able to meet the academic demands of TJ? Are they being told a A is required in all classes and punished if it falls below that? Are you sending a message at home that the ends (top 10%) justify the means, and that anything goes to get to an Ivy?  Pressuring your kids so they feel they have no choice? What?

And what are the 120 or so parents who discover their kids cheated doing about it?  None, or almost none are pulling them out of TJ. My kid knows we would rather see an honest C than an A based on cheating. And that if he has an academic integrity violation, we will withdraw him the next day and send his butt back to the base school. Because, I am not raising a cheater. But a lot of TJ parents are. Again, about 10% of kids will have a substantiated violation this year. And many more kids are doing it, but not being caught.

And, BTW, the kids in Asian cheating rings are not grades earned through hard work, because Asian kids put so much more effort.  Cheating isn't hard work.  It's lazy and dishonest. [/quote]

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