Teachers help students cheat?

Yes, you are indeed right when you say that teachers/educators should know what they are doing is ethical or otherwise, and helping students to cheat is not an ethical action or solution. However, putting ourselves into their shoes, I think I can understand why they decided to help the students cheat in this situation. I have a feeling that teachers/educators are held responsible if their students fail in examinations. My parents are teachers too, and every time when their students do badly in public examinations they have to write reports to explain why the students did badly in those examinations. This puts a lot of stress on the teachers/educators hence it is always their wish for their students to excel and succeed in examinations. If the education system takes a reform and teachers/educators are not help responsible for how the students perform in examinations, I am sure most teachers/educators would be more firm in deciding not to help students cheat. Just my opinion.......

Here in the UK there is no way of cheating from what i can remember when i was at school, as there were proper examiners that come from miles away to watch people take their exams and that way there are no way people can ever get to cheat, plus the exam papers are also kept on the examiner to be marked up.

Our schools are totally corrupt and academic and moral wastelands. I am a teacher who, by God's grace, will not have to set foot in a public school again. What goes on is beyond disgusting as our students are used as pawns, dumbed-down, and held hostage to the greed of the teachers' unions and corrupt administrators. It is beyond repugnant that our children should be subjected to this crimanal behavior.

For me yes if the teacher tolerate the cheating process they help.

This is so common and it happens everywhere in the world. Actually if you were to think about it in the shoes of the teachers. You will actually facing a lot of pressure on how to improve the passing rate of the students. Especially when many students are weak in certain subject, and if after giving so much of lecture and the student still not improved, they will probably think of someway to cheat so that their student will get a good mark.

I am always thankful for having been to a school who is not willing to compromise quality education to other benefits. Teachers should bear in mind that the real purpose of being an educator is to help students learn, the ultimate goal is not passing the course but to learn what is indicated and supposed to be learned in the course. I told my siblings that I would rather see a failure mark on their report cards or grade sheets than see them graduate with flying colors only to find out they didn't know a single thing about their degree. Education is gone if teachers help their students cheat. And those educators just missed the point why the institution exists. I have also often said to my colleagues, "if ever I decide to be in academe, perhaps a lot of students would curse me during exams, because I would really make exams that are pretty challenging, but I would also make it a point that they'd realize, it's for their own good, why I am such a terror in the course." Back in college, I have a professor who could afford to flank half of the class just to ensure quality education. Yes! It's true. I got a course under him, and it was a great challenge for me. I got the lowest passing grade from him, but when I took the review class, I realized, I was just lucky, I enrolled in his class. I learned a lot from him, even if got me terrorized, but I gained a lot. So, that's my views. :) chuyins

I am glad that they were caught. It is not going to help the students in the long run. They are not going to learn anything by cheating.

I think that it is an outrage that teachers are helping students to cheat. How are the students supposed to learn that cheating is wrong if the people who they are looking up to also cheat? It is wrong that often the progress of the school is measured purely by the results that their students get in tests. Because of this, the teachers think that they will be punished if the children underperform, meaning that they are more likely to become stressed and want to make their tutors want to improve their grades. If there is too much pressure on the teachers, they will want to cheat. The reason that students cheat is because there is too much pressure on them to get good grades, and this is why teachers want to cheat, too.

This is not surprising in my country where graft and corruption is an everyday thing. I call this behavior selfishness. They are not really concerned of their students but they are concerned with the school's reputation. The more passage the better their reputation would be and the more enrollees there will be. Thus, in the end, it's the school that benefits and not the students. This is such a shameful act that needs to be curtailed as soon as possible.

Whats the point of education if all this goes on...trying to hide failure is not a wise option...its should always be seen as - failure is a stepping stone to success.. more over those guys who really do well as per merit as no where in the picture and also feel cheated...severe action should be taken in such cases and the culprits delt with severly...teachers are they to educate and not do wrong things.....hope this improvs.....