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[quote=Anonymous]Upthread poster here. I'm going to try to translate this from Private School Parent to English.

BLUF: This is a pile of self-serving crap.

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By “strictly enforced” I meant that confirmed cases are dealt with harshly. As in expulsion. 
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So only draconian punishments will get high schoolers to do the ethical thing.

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That said, I don’t see your point. The schools that are DL ARE trusting the students, and that trust, by all accounts from students, is being regularly violated when classes are on line. The kids are in a room, by themselves, with an iPad sitting beside their computer.  The temptation is simply too much for many. You can imagine how demoralizing it is for kids that do not cheat who are seeing their classmates coast to the same or better grades. 
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Students cannot resist temptation. Some students have been caught cheating. Therefore all are suspect. Students at private schools with draconian punishments are not cheating (see above).

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We’re talking about public schools with thousands of students, not Harvard Law School.  It doesn’t matter if these schools have what meets your definition of a real honor code or not.  The cheating is a real thing, and I don’t see how AD’s measure the difference between a kid that has been in person all year, with full-time classes, ECs, and exams, with a kid that has been staring at a zoom screen a few hours a day and had no real exams.  I know that schools have varied greatly on how they’re handling DL, but I have friends and family members who have described what they’re kids are doing, and my description is accurate for many. 
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Admissions directors cannot be trusted to figure out which public school kids merit a precious slot at Harvard. We should probably return to the old system where each well heeled private was given a quota and could simply tell the Admissions Committee who to admit. A few smart public schoolers will be admitted to provide a veneer of respectability to the whole thing.

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Honestly, I don’t thinks kids who cheat their way to a 4.5 are going to flunk out of college, but I do think it’s made a process that was previously a crap shoot even more arbitrary.  
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Look, I'm reasonable. They'll probably pass. But is that how a properly elitist society should be run?

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Oh, and for those who keep insisting that it’s only one semester of grades, in many areas, this year’s Juniors will have gone to school DL for half their HS careers. [/quote]

All of the public kids achievements should be viewed with suspicion.

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