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Banksters in Training 0

In the San Jose Mercury-News, Victor Dorff describes what he considers a new attitude amongst his students: that cheating is just part of the game.

A nugget:

A few weeks ago, a student took my final exam in the morning and gave the answers to someone taking it that afternoon. The second student didn’t notice that the question on his test was slightly different, and the answer was now wrong. When confronted, he professed not to understand that he had cheated. He thought that getting a test answer from another student in advance was no different than studying with a partner.

He goes on to wonder how to combat the cheaters.

Mr. Dorff misses the point.

The students are demonstrating that they can learn from their betters, using proven tactics to master their universe.

They aren’t just copying the answers.

They are copying the success strategies of the rich, the influential, the revered, the kowtowed-to.

The Wall Street.

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