Movies or TV shows with scenes about academic dishonesty?
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June 18th, 2015
Hi everyone,
I’m creating a unit for my ESL students (university level) about academic dishonesty—plagiarism, cheating, etc.
Can you think of any movies or TV shows that have scenes with students engaging in some kind of academic dishonesty? If you can recall the specific scene or episode, even better!
Thanks a ton!
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NSFW. South Park has an episode where Cartman helps Hispanic teenagers cheat. I don’t know the name of the episode. Edit: it is called “Eek, a penis.”
Thanks! Yeah, I know these scenes are everywhere out there—it’s just a matter of remembering them when I need to. I did think of a few good ones from Freaks and Geeks and Back to the Future.
Animal House – students from Animal House don’t study but are being threatened with expulsion for bad grades. They steal the answers for an exam, but their rival frat finds out and has switched the answers.
War Games – protagonist hacks school computer to alter grades and impress girl, then hacks military computers and nearly starts nuclear war
It’s not exactly academic, but Quiz Show is pretty good
@stanleybmanly But none of the students were given detention for cheating. They submitted one essay as a kind of protest, not really as a cheat.
21 Jump Street. There were at least two episodes about fake grades. One dealt with college paying athletes and fixing their grades. There was at least one about selling term papers. They covered students under pressure sex for grades. I never watched the movie, so I don’t know if it would work for you.
Risky Business, Joel trades Future Enterprisers club for WTF, and trades an evening of joy to Princeton recruiter for admission to Princeton.
I’m not sure, maybe someone else here has seen it more recently than me. I think in the Teen Wolf remake with Michael J Fox, the best friend sold papers. He sure did find other ways to bend/break rules for cash.
Diary Of A Whimpy Kid an heirloom assignment gets a bad grade each time it is used.
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