Responsibility

Responsibility
These days it seems like cheating is everywhere from the baseball diamond to the classroom. With stories of professional dishonesty and performance-enhancing drugs permeating the adult world, it 's no wonder that studies show academic cheating among children and teens on the rise. But while cheating on a test or plagiarizing an essay may seem a quick way to get a leg up, students are actually holding themselves back from the type of meaningful learning that will serve them best in life. In Colleen Wenke 's essay, "Too Much Pressure," Wenke argues that cheating is a rising problem in college and especially high school that must be solved. She cites statistics indicating that the frequency of cheating has increased over the past few generations and attributes the problem to high levels of pressure on students to succeed, be accepted to competitive colleges, and earn a high income when they are adults. Overall, her arguments are weak. While she is clear in convincing the reader that the main cause of cheating is "Too Much Pressure," she does not effectively persuade him or her that it is an imminent concern and is vague in her proposed solutions to the problem. She also describe that A national survey conducted in American High School Students stated that 98 percent of students have admitted to cheating, an amount Wenke describes as much larger than her parents’ generation. With students, including herself, thinking that everyone cheats and it’s just how school is, the morals of the students are lowered and cheating is more widely accepted. She also said that people thought that the best jobs are given to the students who graduate from the best colleges, and the students who are accepted into the best colleges are those who can correctly fill in the most lettered bubbles. Wenke also describe that with so much pressing on student’s lives, students are searching easier way to get good grades.
With goal-oriented students determined to compromise values to achieve their goals, the rise of cheating begins. Those who normally cheat are almost rewarded and are thought of to be normal. Those who rarely cheat, but begin to do so follow the crowd and hope to take a share of some of the success cheaters are obtaining, and those who would never cheat sometimes fall victim to those who surpass with better grades. This process of cheating has been increasing overtime. People cheat due to too much pressure placed on them by parents and by the competition among students to get into a good college. Because of this, many resort to cheating so they could receive outstanding grades. Colleen Wenke’s, Too Much Pressure, discusses this issue among students. In one of her paragraph Wenke said, “ I believed schools were not fulfilling their role and therefore were producing students who do not know the difference between right and wrong” (534). In this line Wenke believes that mainly schools cause cheating. Schools are to be blamed because many teachers tolerate cheating, gives mild consequences to cheaters, and school places a greater emphasis on good grades rather than knowledge. I am disagreeing with Wenke’s point of view that Schools is the only one who is responsible for cheating. Schools are not the only one who is not fulfilling their role, but parents also not taking their responsibilities at home which is making this worst.
Schools never misguide the students, but sometimes its parent’s responsibility to take care of their children. They have to spend some time with their children. They have to regular check their schedules. When I was in high school, I love to play the video games and to play soccer with my friends all day. It was October 2009; I had my half yearly exams started. It was my Geography exam and I didn’t studied at all because I was playing video games a day before my exam. Next day I was in examination hall and trying to cheat from my book. I was so scared. Finally, I started cheating from my book, but teacher caught me doing cheating. He took my paper and wrote cheating on the top of paper and gave a big F in that exam. He told me to brought my parents on next day otherwise he would terminate me from school. I was so scared and I didn’t tell my parents that why my teacher called them to school. Next day, when they went to school and they heard that I was suspended from school because I cheated in my exam. They got so mad on me. They didn’t talk to me for a while, but later night they gave me a long and big speech. They took my all the games from me and they locked me in a room for 2 days. At that moment I thought that was my mistake because I didn’t study before the exam, but then I think that parents also have to play an important role o their children life. If they took my all games before my exams started then may be I didn’t cheat in my exams, but they didn’t pay any attention on me. Our parents are our guardian, teacher and caretaker. If the children make any wrong choice then that parent’s responsibility to give them good advice that what is wrong and right. They can only stop cheating at school. If the student is copying their assignment at home, how can school stop them then its come to parents that they have to regular check their children schedule.
In conclusion, Parents have to know what their children doing in schools and how they are studying in schools. A parent 's role is to support their child academic growth. Support the school and be active in their children education. Express concerns with the teacher. So if the Parents know their child academic strengths and weaknesses. They can help their children in those particular fields. So, if parents regular check up their children timetable and visit to school once in a month will help to stop these kinds of situations.

Work Cited
Wenke, Colleen. “Too Much Pressure.” The Bedford Reader, 10th Edition. Eds.
X.J.Kennedy, et al. 10th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2010. 534. Print.

Cited: Wenke, Colleen. “Too Much Pressure.” The Bedford Reader, 10th Edition. Eds. X.J.Kennedy, et al. 10th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2010. 534. Print.