Cheating an ugly issue - some stats

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2002 survey from Rutgers' Management Education Center, which polled 4,500 high school students, found that 75 percent of these students had cheated. UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOL: In a major study of both college and high school students by Duke University's Center for Academic Integrity, more than 70 percent of the students surveyed admitted to having cheated at least once on exams in the previous GRADUATE SCHOOL: More than half (56%) of M.B.A. candidates say they cheated in the past year, concludes a study by the Academy of Management Learning and Education of 5,300 students in the U.S. and Canada. With 54% of graduate engineering students, 50% of students in the physical sciences, 49% of medical and other health-care students, 45% of law students, 43% of graduate students in the arts and 39% of graduate students in the social sciences and humanities readily admitting to cheating, something must be done to correct course. REAL LIFE************************************************************************ We see cheating in real life. Recently in the last 5 years at least 60 major corporations have restated their financial statements. Many times the motivation was not from an honest mistake or carelessness but rather a need to have higher earnings to generate higher stock values for shareholders. Sports is notorious for cheating. Baseball and Barry Bonds...done. Now taxes how about that....yup. Enough said.