Cheating In School Essay

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In this assignment I will try to persuade you of my beliefs as to whether or schools should

expel students who are caught cheating on exams and or plagiarizing their homework

assignments. It 's easy for students to get so caught up in the overwhelming stress of school that

they forget about the consequences of their decisions. Cheating might seem like the best solution

for a student who doesn 't study, can 't completely research a paper or is struggling to avoid failing

a class. The consequences of cheating, however, can be truly terrible and vary from temporary

academic difficulties to serious legal problems and character damage. Cheating has become a big

problem in schools today, starting off in the lower teaching; students …show more content…

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message delivered clearly. They draw in their audience and explain their views. Rhyming quotes

on posters would help students remember them. Putting celebrities on posters is also a great way

to draw in students attention. You want to make sure that when you are trying to portray your

message across, that you are doing it in a way that attracts others visually. A picture of a

celebrity or athlete is a great example of that. As a child we are taught morals. You 've probably

heard the old saying that goes: "When you cheat, you 're really cheating yourself." It may seem

childish, but it does make a lot of sense. Schools can help develop us into better people n a lot of

different ways. School is where you begin to learn most of your life lessons. If you choose to not

learn life tools because you’re cheating, then you’re going to find yourself struggling and making

poor decisions for your future.

A second solution to cheating is for the teachers to watch their students very carefully

while they are taking an exam. Teachers should not be leaving the classroom while students …show more content…

Students start to build up a comfort level with their

teachers and overtime they can usually find out a way to beat the system. Students should always

be strongly monitored in a classroom environment. I say this not only because of cheating but

also because of violence.

So you may say well how can a teacher watch and monitor all of their students? That is a

good question. A solution to that problem is the school can provide security cameras that monitor

the students work. Security cameras are an ever present device that is designed specifically to

monitor activities. I believe this would be a great choice to monitor students in a classroom. It

would reduce cheating by students knowing that they are always being watched not just by the

teacher but from cameras as well.

The third solution to cheating is teachers must know the methods that students use to

cheat. You can’t win a war without knowing what the enemy is doing as well. What are some of

the methods that students use to cheat? Well look at our society now, what is almost

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