Cheating in Schools

Davis Odum
Composition 1 (ENGL 101)
24/04/2013

CHEATING IN SCHOOLS
'Student cheating in school is the immoral way adopted to achieve a successful goal'. In everyone’s life all of us feel the temptation to cheat at some point during our daily activities, and sometimes we even do. Cheating can be found in all age group and it very important for us to look in to teenagers in our educational society. When the educational system was introduced, we can remember that cheating was rare in our schools, students are willing to work hard in other to earn their grades. But if we look in our today’s schooling system including the technological devices in our student’s disposal, we can conclude that the whole importance of learning aspect has been eliminated. Every student in our schools today are focused on making top grades and they are willing to do anything in other to achieve this purpose. All student in school need to realize that cheating is bad and should be avoided at all cost.
It is very important that every student know the primary reason why they’re in school. School exist so that students can be educated, not that students can cheat their way into success. The most shocking discovery is that most students today don’t see anything wrong in cheating, and this is because they have been engaging in this act for a very long time. This is a very important and serious issue in which I think the Ministry of Education need to take drastic measures to students whenever they’re been caught cheating in classroom during examinations.
Students need to realize that cheating is of no benefit because, when they cheat their way through high school and college they will end up not been able to keep a job. Every student need to understand that earning a certificate only makes you eligible to apply for certain job position, but that same certificate will not keep your job for you. At the end of the day your whole years spent schooling will be wasted.
If young students believe cheating is normal, who knows what mentality they will have when they grow up to be adults. Most student think that cheating on one little test or quiz doesn’t mean that you will cheat again, but unfortunately this is not true because you will be tempted again with the motive that you will not be caught. So therefore with this mindset you will want to do that over and over again resulting you to be lazy and less focused in your studies.
I am not saying that anyone who has ever cheated is a crook, because that would mean just about every student at our average school would be one, including me. What I am saying is that cheating should be more frowned upon and kids should receive harsher penalties. This is not something you want to hear, but I truly believe that if there were consequences for cheating, students would actually focus on learning. Then we all would be better educated.