By Kelley Bouchard, Portland Press Herald
It used to be that cheating was a simple matter of copying someone else’s homework, letting your eyes wander during a test or turning in a friend’s term paper as your own. Now, smart phones and other information technologies are so prevalent in students’ lives that it’s tougher to tell when they’re cheating. “You see people texting all the time in class,” said Nate Stoddard, a Portland High School sophomore, demonstrating how a student might hold a smart phone on his lap and out of sight. “I don’t know if they’re cheating, but they could be.” To bring some clarity to a complicated issue, Portland school officials have drafted a detailed policy on academic honesty. The School Committee will formally receive the policy tonight and vote on the proposal in the coming weeks.
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