Mari Pearlman’s article Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society, states “By emphasizing the wrong things in a student testing, we end up inviting a culture of compromise.” Pearlman suggests that society has grown to compromise cheating, meaning it is okay with certain scenarios but not in others. Mari Pearlman also asserts that parents cheat with taxes, and cheat at their work but want teachers to go hard on cheating teens in a classroom.
Teens and children learn from those they surround themselves with, and not just their peers. Pearlman points out that students who tend to get caught cheating live in a household where parents bend the rules a little. I agree with Pearlman, most teens look up to who is their legal guardian