Cheating Is Wrong

In today’s society, cheating has become the norm. For the rising generations, it is all they will ever know. If everyone cheats off of one another, what would anyone have to live up to? Kids believe it is necessary to cheat so they can make the grades they will need to pass. When did the word cheating become more popular than the word studying? Students who cheat their way through high school will have trouble when it comes to finding a job, learning to do things on their own, and gaining trust in other people. Students who received decent grades in high school and college from just copying their classmate’s answers will have a difficult time when it comes to finding a job. Chances are they will not know what it is they want to do because

Students in today’s culture, are constantly trying to find a way out of doing their own work. From an article in the New York Times, an editorial stated, “Copying homework or sharing answers to a test, while undeniably wrong, become [sic] minor acts of rebellion…” (qtd. In Kolker). If a student can find a friend who has already done the work, they would rather just copy their answers then have to spend their time on finding the answers on their own. Once someone finds a way to “cut the corners”, it is even harder to get back into the habit of doing their own work. In most cases, it is not even that the work is particularly hard, it is just the fact that students today have become lazier than ever before. Robert Kolker did a study on the students enrolled in Stuyvesant High School and found, “many people questioned why some of New York City’s top students felt the need to cheat on the statewide Regents exams, which are not considered particularly challenging for Stuyvesant students” (Kolker). The students did not cheat because they did not have to proper skills to take the test, they just did it because the answers were already provided so they thought they mine as well check their answers. An editorial also wrote, “Students who took a test in the morning often provided answers to students taking the same test later that day…” (qtd. In Kolker). In lots of cases students will let their friends know exactly what they need to know for the test. Personally, I feel if I had to study and know all the material for the test, so should they. When it comes time a student does not have any friends to give them the answers and cannot find someone who has already completed the homework, what are they going to do then? It will be difficult when they have to actually do things on their