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I read the article When Are We Going to Stop Giving Kids Tests That They Can Cheat On? on the Weblogg-ed Blog by Will Richardson which stated only the question in the title: When are we going to stop giving kids tests that they can cheat on? The reason we do not do this now is because if there is a test a kid will figure out a way to cheat on. Every form of test is able to be cheated on. If you wanted to give kids a test they were not able to cheat on you would have to put each child in a sound proof box. Then you would have to check each student to make sure all they brought in was a pencil. A check of the child's hands and arms would also have to take place to make sure the child didn't write any thing on his or her arms. The Sound proof boxes would have to be made of one way glass so you could see what the student was doing but the student couldn't see out. This is the only way tests would become cheat proof but even then a kid would come up with a way to cheat. They would slip paper in there shoe or put a cell phone in a place not able to be found by a quick search. As long as there are tests kids will find a way to cheat on them. That is how people are. There never will be a way to have a test that there is no way for a student to cheat on. 

Even though there is no way to completely eliminate cheating there are ways to prevent cheating. Prevention is the only thing that can be done. Elimination is not possible in this time. Kids will come up with more creative ways and innovative ways to cheat. A question i pose is what would the world be like if these people used there thinking to come up with ways to help instead of finding ways to cheat. Cheating will never be eliminated but only prevented.