Essay On Popular Atrocity

A Popular Atrocity High school and college: two romanticized ideas that are so often portrayed in movies, television shows, and books as a fun, carefree, and exciting environment for upcoming adults to spend their time and engage in interesting learning. In films, school seems to have no stress, homework, tests, or grades, and students seem to be happy without having to worry about doing well on a test or paper. In reality however, students are pushed to their limits. Many adults think that this is how education is supposed to work; students are to be put under immense pressure of doing well in school to prepare them for work when they are older. But, when students are put under such a large amount of stress, often they find themselves shoveling food down at lunch in order to finish their last minute biology homework or frantically texting someone who has government the class
For example, fellow classmates may pressure students into helping them cheat. A friend might give you the multiple choice answers to the Spanish quiz if you in return hand over the short answer for the English test. Often, even if you do not want to cheat, you will tell your friend the short answers to avoid confrontation or an argument. You may feel obligated to tell class periods after you the main themes of a test to keep them happy. The pressure from other students for a mutual respect is almost undeniable and can play a large factor into the behavior of cheating. With countless reasons for cheating and an infinite amount of problems of cheating, is there a possible solution? More often than not students will see cheating as something else. Students may fail to realize that reading ‘sparknotes’ instead of the actual textbook or copying the worksheet answers from the teacher’s website is actually cheating. It is much more challenging to reform students who do not see a problem with what they are