To me this whole issue seems more like a small incident turned huge scandal thanks to the original article by the New York Post even though I haven’t seen it or intend to. And then the huge uproar over at the Baruch side of things is nothing more than adults trying to fix their image. Honestly, I feel like this is an insult to us students: the administration doesn’t respect us as students to not cheat and even goes puts in the effort to build a team to target this issue. I feel like witch hunt was a great term to describe this. Me, being the pessimist I am, don’t really believe in the rights that will be promised to us. If they don’t believe that we have the strength to not cheat, just like how we have the strength to pull ourselves away from the computer or phone to study, how would you, as a member of the witch hunting team, believe that a student is telling the truth when they say they are not cheating? I think that the school’s efforts are noble and all, for wanting to find a solution to the problem of cheating. But cheating is a global problem and in order to fix that you’d probably have to mess with some psychological aspects. A world without cheating and cheaters is like a utopia, in my opinion.
One thing that did piqué my interest, however, was the fact that the writer of this article pointed out that cheating relates to the flawed and useless system of high numbers that we take as a grading system. I hope that adults can understand that not everything is all about numbers and perhaps you should all take a step back and read The Little Prince and see how ridiculous the world of grown ups is. Though I guess I can’t really do anything but complain while I can since I’m going to be sucked into it soon anyways. My opinion about numbers, however, still stands. I’m not sure who said this quote exactly as I don’t remember, but a certain CEO stated that he would hire lazy people because they would be able to perform tasks the easiest way. I ranted a bit on this post but free writes are highly encouraged aren’t they?