And, Why Is This Not Cheating? Bringing Honesty Home

The title for this book came from a brief incident with a student. Early one morning before school, I noticed a student in my room working on something. When I asked her if she needed any help, she said, “No, I’m just copying something.” I walked over to see what she was doing and saw that she was copying answers to the assignment for my class from a friend’s paper. I told her what she was doing was cheating. Her reply was, “Oh, this isn’t cheating. My friend said it was okay for me to copy...