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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your TJ student is put in an impossible position. Cheat along with the 75% or take the lower grade. Cheating is so widespread at TJ there is no avoiding it. [/quote]

As someone with a kid who just graduated from TJ, this statement is clearly wrong/overblown.  There is no doubt that there is some cheating at TJ, but I doubt that it is any more prevalent than it is at other base schools. My younger son - who is at our local HS - tells me about the cheating that goes on there.[/quote]

Its prevalence at pretty much any high school in this area runs concurrent to how much the student body is invested in getting good grades.

At TJ it is the most prevalent because 100% of the student body is under a high amount of pressure to get good grades. Academic integrity takes a back seat for many families to "that which will get me the coveted Ivy League bumper sticker".

But it absolutely exists in other places. Look for a large cohort of kids who care about their grades and a significant percentage of them will be cheaters.[/quote]

You forgot aunt Becky and her friends engaging in large scale cheating to get their dumb kids into top schools.  Cheating on SAT and ACT, cheating on college applications, bribery and getting fake medical diagnosis etc. [/quote]

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