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Originally Posted by lovelyivy84
Sounds like you got lucky.
When did parents as a group lose their minds? When i was a kid if there was a problem between me and a teacher (not that there ever was- I was trained) it would have been MY fault until proven otherwise. There would have been no debate. I have never cheated on a test. I have never plagiarised a paper. It would have been unthinkable. If I HAD and she found out my Mom would have marched me into the head of school's office herself!
What happened to integrity in academia? Did competitiveness kill it?
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I totally understand what you're saying. Same here... and both of my parents are in education, so they would be the first to come down on me if I ever screwed up (which of course, I never did
), and then deliver me to the principal.
I think it's really a sense of privilege and entitlement that some parents pass onto their kids. I don't think most parents are this way, though.