Schools cannot beat the entertainment industry at its own game. What they have to offer students is the chance for intellectual freedom, the power to think for themselves…(Ravitch 163). In school, students are always taught to have an open-mind, how can they have an open-mind when they are being censored? Schools only offer boring, bland topics and cause students to lose interest. Students are so highly influenced by the media that if they aren’t hearing about violence, death, sex or lies, then they have the “don’t care” mentality.
Over 60% of students had cheated in the past month, which is fairly recent, and a staggering 83% had cheated in the past quarter. This showed us that cheating is an on going problem that almost certainly happens daily in Perry Hall High. To sum up our survey we asked students to tell us how big of a problem they though cheating was in our school on a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being the most serious. 41% responded a 3 with the rest of the figure split evenly between 1,2,4, and 5. We concluded from this that students don’t really care about the subject or are indifferent about it.
Some of these (obvious) elements are improperly and mishandling of the Nine Reid Steps of Interrogation or failing to recognized specific factors or signs such as the mentally ill, children / young adults, or persons with low I.Q. These facts will inevitably suppress a confession. As with all fallacies, in order to understand the suspect and situational factors involved in false confessions, more research needs to continue. It is a popular now known fact that studies of false confessions reveal most people who make false confessions are the young, developmentally disabled or mentally ill. However, if a true suspect is foolish enough to fall for police deception, they do so at their own peril (Rhode Island v. Innes, 1980; State v. Jackson, 1983).
There are some really strong contradictions in Devlin's article. He says that “helping students appreciate and welcome differences in culture, racial heritage, and personal identity, are increasingly hard to teach.” Yet Devlin’s solutions offer up ideas like enforcing a “dress code”, having gender segregated classes, making the students where I.D tags so they would be easily identified by cameras, having more drug sniffing dogs, and random spot checks of cars and lockers. Turning the schools into a police state does not set a good example for tolerance. Dress codes do not show tolerance. Gender segregation is not going to teach men and women to work together as
(Stolley, Brizee, 2010) Citing of sources must be taken very seriously as plagiarism can result in some very strict consequences, sometimes getting dispelled from the university or losing employment and in some cases losing the profession altogether. There have been many cases in which plagiarism results due to sheer lack of knowledge. Though we have seen some pointers in the above paragraph that could avoid the mess. According to the Library Guides, University of Alberta, some of the main reasons why students are victims to plagiarism are as follow: • "Lack of research skills" • "Problems evaluating Internet sources" • "Confusion between plagiarism and paraphasing" • "Careless notetaking" • "Confusion about how to cite sources" • "Misconception of common knowledge", etc (Guide to Plagiarism, 2012). Though avoiding plagiarism seems to look very easy,but due to lack of knowledge of how to present information one can easily fall into the trap.
Many teachers do not like “catching plagiarists and bringing them to academic justice.” As she states, it is not hard to just cite the author that originally had the information you are using (Bojar). Plagiarism is becoming a big problem in the school system. Many students do not understand what needs to be cited and what does not. The school system should teach students the proper way to cite, and they should teach them that copy and pasting is not writing a paper. According Bojar to students at the community college have a hard time juggling classes along with his or her family and a job.
Instead of learning some actual useful information, teachers fret over the test rather than about how much that student is actually absorbing into their head. It has become a practice to ‘teach the test’ in today’s teaching world. Tests like SAT, ACT and AP have you pay quite a bit and don’t even show you what you did wrong, blocking out the possibility of even trying to learn from your mistakes. It is believed to be a clever tactic used to gain more profit, students keep coming back to prove they are worth more with those silly numbers. They stress day and night over these overrated tests, like previously stated channeling out the imagination, curiosity and good will.
Plans to Eliminate College Binge Drinking Nearly half of today’s college student population is stumbling through the college years due to binge drinking. Binge drinking on college campuses isn’t just an issue of public health, but it’s one of self-interest. Failure to act in the face of foreseeable harm places schools at risk for damaging their academic reputations and liability lawsuits in millions of dollars. Also, students experience a wide variety of alcohol related problems including hangovers, blackouts, and engaging in unplanned sexual activity. According to Lini Kadaba’s article, Colleges Hitting the Bottle Binge Drinking Remains High, but Initiatives at Area Schools Raising Awareness, “College binge drinking is remaining in colleges due to the intractable problems that contribute to 1,700 student deaths, 599,000 injuries, and 97,000 cases of sexual assault, or date rapes.” (24).
The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that nationwide 25.4% of students had been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug by someone on school property (Mieczkowski 1996). These statistics are staggering and directly correlate to the problem the United States is having with illegal drugs being trafficked into our borders. Finally, drug trafficking effects our economy in many ways. The most prevalent one is the amount of money America spends on “The War on Drugs,” which I will elaborate on later. Another effect is the loss of money made in America legitimately to crime groups for illegal goods.
Academic Integrity The academic community has been conducting many discussions on academic integrity due to the perception of the rapid increase of unethical academic behavior taking place not only on the college or university campuses but also on the resources that are freely available on the Worldwide Web. Many students copy these texts without referencing and acknowledging the source of the information. Some students even intentionally violate the academic integrity even though these students know or do not know the importance of the academic integrity. Some people believe that the information on the web are considered common, but others say that taking any information from someone else without properly cited will violate the academic integrity. Many debates and disagreements on when an unethical behavior becomes a problem on campuses but everyone agrees that academic honesty and presentation of original academic work are very important and its violation means a betrayal of the core mission of the institutions, and betrayal of oneself.