Growing up, I was a bit of a nerd. I enjoyed learning. History was my favorite subject so I always paid close attention. We used to play a game in class that was similar to Jeopardy. Our teacher allowed us to take notes that we could use during the game. My teammates knew that my notes would be extensive so they would simply rely on mine and not even bother taking any. This infuriated me. How is this fair? Why are they getting credit for all of my hard work?
Cheating is not only unfair to the student cheating, it also affects the student they are cheating off of. Some students put a lot of effort into their work and when people cheat, it may make honest students feel like their work is undervalued. This may make them feel like there is no point in working hard to earn the education they deserve. Students are devaluing the hard work of others and themselves. Cheating shows a lack of integrity in that student. They have cruised through life never really learning anything. Some may cheat their way through high school, then college, and eventually cheat through life. This could eventual...
The thing that confuses me are the reasons why people cheat. I know that in college life, it is clear that grades are important. Since grades are so important, people want to do better and want to succeed in their classes that they are taking. By cheating, it makes it easier for them to get a better grade. I agree that it is not an honest thing to do, but it is clear that they are doing it for a reason, to benefit themselves. Also, people want to help their friends succeed so that is another part of it. I think if schools wanted to get rid of cheating, they should not focus on the grades as much. Grading people is important, but is it that important if everyone cheats? I also see how people want to be viewed as honest. I do not think people want to cheat because they think they will be viewed as immoral. Also, they could be punished which would hurt them as well. If everyone cheats in schools, why not just allow it? That is the way that the world is running currently and everyone is cheating their way through
A writer has only two things to sell: his words and his ideas. If you steal either, it’s as bad as stealing any other peddler’s stock-in-trade. Unlike other peddlers, though, the writer gives you permission to use his stock-in-trade at your will as long as you point out that the stuff originally belonged to him.
Almost every student has cheated at one point or another for some reason they use to justify it and they could be any one of these forms of cheaters. Although all these types of cheaters will attempt to rationalize their cheating with various excuses and reasons there is no real justification. They all know it is the wrong thing to do, but will cheat anyways as they can get away with it and it will create the illusion of greater intelligence for themselves and that is a problem for the youth of America. It will make students learn to cheat better instead of actually learning the material assigned to them, resulting in a less intelligent generation.
This may potentially add more integrity towards cheating in the class room by adding a sense of competition to classwork. A study compiled by an expert in academic integrity, Professor Donald Mc Cabe, conducted a survey of over 4500 high school students from across the nation. From this study of 24,000 high school students from 70 different high schools, 64 percent of students confessed to cheating on a test, while over 95 percent admitted to participating in acts such cheating on a test, plagiarism or collaborating on homework. Fro...
I would prefer that students don't cheat. Yes, they really are mostly cheating themselves, so fine. But it also reflects poorly on the community. Rationally or not, what particularly irks me is that it is disrespectful: of me, of their fellow students, of the university, of the institution of learning, and of themselves. Anddid I mentionof me? It is particularly irksome when their cheating implies (reminds?) that I am a fool.
In conclusion, cheating is a dishonest action, and its effects could tremendously impact other people around. Alerting authority figures about dishonesty actions can help motivate students to learn the subjects thoroughly and build meaningful life experiences. Although we might lose a friendship, but in the long run, friends will be thankful, since who knows if they are in a situation, where they actually need to use their knowledge, in the workforce they are
Situations of cheating have seemed to become more and more commonplace when the student is bored by the subject material, poor teaching and or feels they have no use for the knowledge. Kohn even states in his article, “cheating is more common when students experience the academic tasks they’ve been given as boring, irrelevant, or overwhelming.” This infers that if a student were attending a school interested in learning about art, the student maybe more inclined to cheat in a business accounting class due to the fact the student would find the subject material irrelevant to them and their future. Students seem to be less inclined to cheat and it “is relatively rare in classrooms where the learning is genuinely engaging and meaningful to students and where a commitment to exploring significant ideas hasn’t been eclipsed by a single-minded emphasis on “rigor”” (Kohn). To simplify everything mentioned above; students are inclined to cheat in school when they are disinterested in the subject material and or are overwhelmed by in assignment or finally the result in a poor teacher. Everyone who has attended school can relate to this in some way or another, most people do not want to retain knowledge they have no interest in or use for in their
Mari Pearlman in the LA Times, “Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society,” (August 22, 1999) that it is very hard to teach students that cheating is wrong but when you go home their parents brag about fooling bosses and cheating on income taxes. Society needs to learn that putting an end to cheating, which will lead to cheating later in life, starts in the home. Most parents think they are doing a good thing showing their children how to save more money and get more time off to spend with them. The thing that parents do not understand is that their child is trying to get around the things that are hard in school just as their parents are getting around the hard things of life.
Cheating is a big issue that has reached the most competitive campuses around the United States. It is increasing more and more with the new technology that we have in the 21st century because students have easy access to many sources of information. Cheating is something all students have done at some point in their lives, but as they reach a higher academic level, they are faced with more rigorous consequences that can affect their futures in many different ways. Cheating might be seen as an easy way to obtain a good grade, get into a good college, or maintain scholarships or financial aid, but the consequences could affect the life and the future of the student.
Cheating is wrong, under no circumstances even with good intention, would this be acceptable. If we challenge that could cheating only certain circumstances be wrong? Applying principles of prima facie, defined as not being absolute (Rowan). The potential consequences of the teacher losing his job, the student getting expelled, other students relationships being impacted, how each would deal with the moral consequences in the future are all to be considered.
A wise person once told me, “When you cheat to get ahead you will fall behind when it really counts.” What this truly means is that you can cheat to get ahead and get the good grade on the test or hit that home run on the baseball field, but you will always lose on the inside. Cheating is wrong in a variety of ways because it not only does not allow you to be gauged on you work and god given abilities, but it also deprives the people around you an honest gauge compared to where you truly are without your performance enhancers. In other words Cheating is always wrong because it is not your natural ability of work. When you decide to cheat off that person in front of you on a test you are not only hurting yourself but you could possibly be hurting them as well.
Technology has become and is a daily part of our life. Having technology makes our way of doing things a lot easier. On our everyday life we have technology supporting our basic needs from home, at work, and at school. For the most part technology is used in a positive way in our daily life. However and unfortunately some technologies are used the wrong way. Using technology to cheat in today’s society has become a lot more accessible and easier to do especially in an academic environment.
Misunderstanding, pressure, and laziness are not good reasons to cheat and the effect of the consequences are not worth it. You can end up with an F, in detention, written up, kicked out of school, and with marks on your permanent record. There is no way to justify cheating, no matter how hard people try to. No matter what happens, students will continue to cheat, it is inevitable.
Modern students face many pressures for academic success. They are often unwilling to disappoint their parents or spouses. Some fear that not cheating will weaken a student’s ability to compete with their peers. They rationalize their unethical behavior, unwilling to accept a poor grade, consequently justifying cheating as the only means to that end.
...ions in which cheating is common, they face problems in the job or college search. Since many students with high marks from the institution prove uninformed in their field, employers and admissions committee are unable to verify which students do not know the information, and those who know the information. Therefore, they will have a negative effect of any student from that particular institution.