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CHILDRENS' SCHOOL TEST SCORES AND ESSAYS

Public school districts are under enormous political and financial pressure from local, state and the federal government to get their students' test scores up, so much so, that teachers may be artificially raising or "pumping up" test scores! So, what is in a grade if you cannot even trust teachers NOT to cheat?

Concerning school essays, now students can steal term papers right off the Internet so they never have to write a term paper again! Just like other questionable "how to" instructions can be found in cyberspace, of course, the author of these type information services claims students are NOT supposed to copy the essays verbatim but the essays are only to be used for information purposes.

The so-called legal qualifier or disclaimer supposedly legitimizing these questionable essay services says the essays are only to used to get ideas or used as educational tools and are in now way meant to be stolen word for word or plagiarized then submitted to teachers as a student's own written work.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: NBC-TV NEWS 5/21/96 and CNBC-TV STEALS AND DEALS 9/25/96

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