These students have high grade point averages, but they are frustrated by tedious
assignments that hold little meaning for them. Many admitted to copying homework and
cheating on tests and quizzes because of the pressure. A full 95 percent of the 11th and
12th grade students in our sample reported that they had cheated at least one time. Even
when the work is meaningful, the excessive workload, combined with a busy schedule of
outside activities, becomes too much for many of these kids to handle.