Ethics in Education
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Episode 1: Ethics in Education — Cheating
What does it really mean to “cheat” in education—and why does it happen so often?
In this first official episode of The Edge, educators Deborah “Debbie” DeLisle and Ponnie take a hard look at cheating—not as a simple moral failure, but as a signal of deeper systemic breakdowns. Drawing from lived experience across education systems in the U.S. and communities connected to Johannesburg, they explore the pressures, fears, and inequities that push students and families into survival-mode decision-making.
This conversation asks difficult questions: Who is truly responsible when cheating occurs? What happens when success is valued more than learning? And how do policies and institutional expectations quietly incentivize dishonesty?
Rather than focusing on punishment, this episode examines the real roots of cheating—and what it would take to repair trust, restore integrity, and create education systems where people no longer feel the need to cheat to survive.
Because when cheating becomes common, it’s not just an individual problem.
It’s an ethical one.