Her daughter, Emily, does homework on weekends, Thanksgiving, and over winter break, she said, adding that it has impacted family vacations. "When my daughter got sick, she felt so pressured about missing class that she went to school anyway because she felt she couldn't take a sick day from school," said Matteson. Ilana Matteson, a mother of a Tenafly High School junior, said it's difficult to find the balance when parents want a competitive school district as well as children with a healthy lifestyle. In an environment in which students feel stressed or that they can't measure up to everyone else, cheating may be more likely to occur, Janssen said. "It's a myth that reducing the stress would lower the level of the school ranking or quality of education." "There's too much negative and destructive stress in the school in general," she said, adding that teachers should curtail the amount and kinds of homework they assign in order to decrease the stress level among students. Katie Janssen, is a co-founder of RHOWR (Rational Homework Review), a group of Tenafly Public School parents who say they are "concerned about the role of homework among the stressors impacting students." Janssen, a parent of a 10th-grader at Tenafly High School, asserted that students at the school are under too much pressure. "Kids are subconsciously confusing what's ethical today," Kipiani said.Ī group of Tenafly parents has banded together to address a growing culture of student pressure. Parents and teachers unknowingly support a cheating culture by giving positive reinforcement to students for a good grade, rather than doing what is right and putting forth effort, Kipiani said. "They can take a quick picture with their cellphone and send it to their peers." "The ease of cheating is much greater now," said Kipiani, who in January will launch Class A Tutoring, a mobile application that will allow students to request a tutor on demand. Cheating is also easier in today's high tech world than it was years ago when students had to peer over their shoulders at their classmate's test paper, or write test answers on their arms, she said.
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