Caught Cheating

There is a cheating scandal going on at UCF, with two sides to the story. What does this say about us as humans? Teachers should approach everyone, students and other faculty alike, searching for the image of God uniquely revealed in that person. This posture or approach does not have to stem from faith, but the lesson I think is the golden rule. Neither side wanted such public treatment of the real issues at hand. Students are very busy and any edge is important. Professors cannot possibly be effective with 400 students in a room. Ostensibly, everyone in the class, professor and students alike, wanted to know more about the truth of a subject. To know more about the truth of a subject you need to find out what others think, what the image of God revealed in them has to say about the subject. How could each side have looked for the best in the other in this situation to move everyone towards the goal of learning something cool, rather than shutting down the learning in favor of accusation? This is a hard question worth answering.