Facts of the Case - The American Scholar

Facts of the Case - The American Scholar

In my intermediate class of teenagers at the language school, the students and I were talking about cheating on tests, something that everyone does in their regular school, according to one of my students. She was the youngest in the class, a seventh-grader, and she was very forthright. Not so much bragging about cheating as bringing news to me, her obviously ill-informed teacher. I give very few tests myself, and the students’ grades on them co…