Five tips to prevent your student from cheating
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Cheating among students is rampant. Nine out of 10 middle schoolers admit to copying someone else’s homework and 74 percent of high school students admit to cheating on an exam. Technology makes it even easier, with homework assignments sent via mass e-mail and test answers showing up as text messages.
Educator and author Dr. Michael Hartnett shares five useful tips on how to make sure your child is not a chronic cheater:
1. Check your child’s homework every night. This advice may sound a little intense and age inappropriate by the time your child is in high school, but it’s an important way for parents to know what their child is actually learning. A good sign that a teenager is cheating is the absence of substantive work.