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Plagiarism, the Untold Educational Crisis in America!

There are many problems in our educational system. However, the underlying flaw is the Plagiarism Issue. Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr. used the exact words and ideas of other individuals when he wrote his Doctoral Dissertation at Boston University! Officials at that school even admitted that he plagiarized his dissertation, but felt it was not in the best interests of the school to strip Mr. King of his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Quite generous, but what kind of a message does this send to other students? If Martin Luther King, Jr. can plagiarize his dissertation and get a degree, then why can't I?

Every year, people receive degrees and academic distinctions they do not deserve because they have stolen the ideas of others. Some even copied the ideas of others, word for word, and passed that writing off as their own work! Their professors, for their part, are too busy doing their own publications to trouble themselves to read their students' papers.

As a result, our so-called educational institutions have effectively become nothing more than "diploma mills," dispensing of honors upon people simply because they pay tuition and fees, and then clock hours in the classroom. This is what we call "accredited institutions?"

Many colleges and universities make it very simple for their "students," pay your tuition, clock your classroom hours and at the end of a certain period of time, they will "award" their student some kind of diploma or degree. When students are required to write papers, they just "surf the net" for websites that sell academic papers, find the appropriate paper related to the subject they must write on, use their parents' credit card to pay for the paper, and then download the paper from that website. When you have to write a thesis or a dissertation, a bunch of copy and paste commands can give you the writing that will put Master and Doctor in front of your name. These days, when professors must earn grant dollars for their institutions by doing "academic research," actual education for students has become secondary. Many professors do not trouble themselves to read their students' papers, but instead relegate that job to the graduate assistants and interns assigned to them. In many large institutions, the professors cannot lower themselves to teach undergraduate classes. It is no wonder so many of our educational systems are so deficient.

So what if you cannot read, write or make a contribution in your field! Plagiarism has trashed the American system of education, rendering this country unable to think, reason and objectively evaluate any situation.

That is why we have the problem of teachers that are unable to teach. Our schools, as a result, have become nothing more than babysitting emporiums. Graduation from high school is not an academic achievement, it the doorway to becoming a citizen in THE NEW WORLD ORDER! Many high school graduates are barely literate! It could be that their teachers are not that much better.