How Whacky is This: Anti Cheating Exam Hats?

[Chaukisch]

Did you guys read the article?

Certainly. And I'm all for fun and games but I still think that this is no proper lesson about honesty, which is important. They should be able to teach proper character instead of just putting these things on them like they did with horses in the cavalry. Then again they're kids, they'll respond more to shallow fun or fear than to words about this rather deep subject. But can you treat a kid too much as a kid?
Of course you want to treat a kid sweet but that is one extreme that lacks the other to balance the lesson and the child out.

Many adults in my age range are still spoiled kids and teens brought up by the mother alone, myself included.
I think the strong hand or hard time that brought up the older generations did a lot of good. I'm not talking about regular beatings or a cold and distant attitude either, just some bitter with the sweet. As life will always be bittersweet.

Hats off to any parent, I don't think I could take this kind of responsibility.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Certainly. And I'm all for fun and games but I still think that this is no proper lesson about honesty, which is important. They should be able to teach proper character instead of just putting these things on them like they did with horses in the cavalry. Then again they're kids, they'll respond more to shallow fun or fear than to words about this rather deep subject. But can you treat a kid too much as a kid?
Of course you want to treat a kid sweet but that is one extreme that lacks the other to balance the lesson and the child out.

Many adults in my age range are still spoiled kids and teens brought up by the mother alone, myself included.
I think the strong hand or hard time that brought up the older generations did a lot of good. I'm not talking about regular beatings or a cold and distant attitude either, just some bitter with the sweet. As life will always be bittersweet.

Hats off to any parent, I don't think I could take this kind of responsibility.

I think that it was more of a lesson in creative problem solving that was fun.

 

[Chaukisch]

I think that it was more of a lesson in creative problem solving that was fun.

I don't know, it still seems rather shallow. I'm often told that I think too much and I always respond with "Bullshit, you can't possibly think enough". Maybe I should think about that for a while.

 

[captpat]

Integrity, ethics and morality come from the home, schools can help but in the end it's parents that have the biggest effect. I recall folks I saw cheating back in the day, they weren't of high moral fiber nor was their family. They also failed to comprehend that their activities were noticed by the teachers so they failed to gain much; actually loosing as instead of learning the material they spent their time trying figure out new ways to cheat. IME college professors were pretty adept at ID'ing those whose exams and papers seemed "too good."

The complaints about school curriculums seems timeless. Even in the '60's and '70's my folks used to complain about it, "why didn't they just teach readin', writin', and rithmetic" like the good old days?