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TJ families do not have much choice in the cheating matter. Since such a high number and percentage of the students cheat (and their parents either don’t know or don’t care) it’s either sink or cheat. Of course there are a few who don’t cheat. That’s the minority. The majority cheat. Saying that cheating happens at any school doesn’t change that at TJ it’s rampant and accepted. TJ has an ugly culture that dies need reform. Not going to happen though. 
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It's true that TJ families have little choice in the cheating matter -- the kids know who are the big cheaters, and sometimes they bring it up to the cheaters or to teachers/counselors, but for the most part the main thing we can do is talk to our kids about integrity and why it's valuable. Better to go to a college you earned and gain the trust of a teacher because you earned it, than to go to a more prestigious one because you're a cheat. There was a survey done on cheating a few years ago, which kids answered anonymously. Unless TJ kids were less likely to share their behaviors anonymously, TJ kids were quite similar to other schools in the amount of cheating that goes on.

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The survey was done online and in-school, on school computers. Many TJ students were concerned that, because they had logged in to the computer to take the survey using their FCPS student ID and password, that the survey would not be anonymous. The results are not especially reliable for that reason - which is too bad, because TJ paid thousands of dollars for the program that gave them access to this survey.[/quote]

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