paper. everyone cheats at one time or another. it s an open secret in just about every american school. i m all up night studying and they re cheating. it makes me feel like my hard work is for nothing. experts call an an epidemic. students say it s an art. they try to be a better cheater than a better student. they ll put pieces of paper for answers in their boots. write on the inside of water bottles. the most clever form of cheating i ve ever seen is kids using american sign language. if the teacher is oblivious, you can look at a friend and be like, what s number three? cheating has been around as long as teachers have been giving tests. when you re really given a conflict, what are you going to do? some of you are in high school. rosalyn is an expert in team dynamics and the author of owning up a school based
test in the library. and students tell us that most kids can think cheating in school is no big deal. people go crazy if people cheat on sports, but in school, i don t think people care as much. no one cares if people cheat in school. cheating researcher eric anderman. is there a difference between cheating in sports and cheating in academics? there s a difference in terms of what is tolerated. you re a bad sport if you cheat in sports. whereas in a classroom, for some kids, it s actually makes them cool toe en as chting on academic kinds of things. we hired two new actors to play the cheaters. what will happen when they do this? you think it s c? i put d. did you put d? oh, my gosh. coming up, everybody is doing it. or at least it seems that way. artie schuster? so you are not in trouble,
all around us. we hear about it happening in high level sports and business dealings. trying to shape our children s moral compasses is one of the biggest challenges for parents today. in our next experiment, kids think they are taking a quiz, but will they pass our test? no. we ve seen how some kids react to cheating in sports. even when it would benefit their own team. i will know and i cannot live with the guilty. now we re in a school library and both experts and kids tell us cheating in school is the norm. so many students see it as so prevalent, so common, so prolific that they don t see it as, really, a big, big transgression. these parents are hoping their kids would never cheat. but are they ready to find out? if you re not honest with yourself, you dig yourself a hole. i m so excited. sasha s mother says he s a happy go lucky friendly kid. she says while they rarely discuss cheating, they talk about honesty all the time. we have to be very honest
with not only yourself, but your friends and your family. so what are your predictions for what might happen today? i hope he does the right thing. did you see that katy perry dyed her hair blond? emma s mother says her daughter is a conscience student. she remembers what happened in electric elementary school when a student tried to copy off her paper. she told the teacher. but when she speak up today? how do you think she ll react when the cheating starts happening around her? i think she ll be reay stressed and nervous. and this mom says she s not sure. kids act different when they re not with their moms. thank you so much for coming today. sasha, gi a anna and emma think they re here to be tested on pop culture. a dry run, our producer tells them, for a new game show in development. we need your help in trying to develop this new show.
the adult that s not something you predicted. i really didn t expect it. you re here because we are doing a dateline episode about cheating and your parents have been watching. i m going to get you, dad, i m going to get you. you all did a great job. what happened there doesn t surprise me a bit. when the emphasis is on knowledge kids are not likely to cheat because it doesn t buy you anything. it doesn t get you anything. of course grades will still be a part of school, but experts say parents need to strike the right balance at home. raising kids who would never cheat is an enormous challenge, whether it s teaching them to stand up for what s right or to bounce back when they don t. good job. our children are going to do things that we are not proud of but what i think is important is that parents realize that parenting is a process. this is a journey, a long journey. and the journey starts when