As a parent of a college senior, I am perplexed about suspected cheating in her engineering classes. She takes her exams at the disability resource center. However, when she returns to class, her friends tell her about wide spread cheating during exams. Some of her friends even admit to cheating. She talked to the professor and department chair. They said she didn't witness it so they don't believe her. Now she is the trouble maker. I called the engineering department and they didn't care either. I contacted the office of integtity and conduct and never heard back.
I'm not a person who likes to police others, but the cheaters are making the curve so high that honest students get much lower grades as a result.
My second child is planning to attend the same college, but in a different engineering major. I tried to convince him to go to another school, but he refuses.
How do I keep a positive attitude towards this highly known engineering school in So. Cal? Why do colleges look the other way with cheating? Why do the honest people get labeled as problems when justice is not done right?
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