Frequency and Perceptions of Cheating

Samantha Kane, a petite, vivacious ninth-grader at a Los Angeles County high school strolls through her favorite shopping mall one school night. “Everybody does it” she says when asked about cheating. She holds up her left hand and proudly displays minute abbreviations of the 50 states inked on her palm for an exam earlier in the day. “I don’t feel guilty,” she says. “I feel good because I’m going to get a good grade.”