No longer is cheating restricted to the jocks and 'slow' kids in the back of the room. Today's cheaters are tomorrow's Harvard freshmen-overachievers with too much to do and few qualms about finding the easiest way to produce a 5-page paper on King Lear. According to a disturbing story by Brigid Schulte in The Washington Post Magazine, while the crib sheet under the baseball cap is still in fashion, today's high school cheater is likely to have found the answers to the quiz in the teacher's own test file stored on the school's server, or on the Internet, which seems to be the answer to every student procrastinator's prayer. In the sink-or-swim world of high school today, students say that what matters most is the bottom line, and "'remorse,' says one student, 'just slows you down.'" See "Cheatin', Writin' & 'Rithmetic," by Brigid Schulte, The Washington Post Magazine, September 15, 2002, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4968-2002Sep11.html .
