Teens in high school feel the need to use cheating to get through high school. The reason behind this is because they don’t believe in themselves that they can do just as well, if they just work a little harder. With a lack of motivation in students, cheating is a very easy alternative for not wanting to work hard in school. Students need to acclimate themselves to their school work and studies in order to become successful, not cheat their way out of everything they can. Students cheat in high school because they believe there isn’t another way out or alternative to the situation they are in. So they rely on cheating to skate by and get a passing grade, or result ECT. The vast majority of people believe that cheating is wrong according to …show more content…
I think it’s a generation thing because our generation is very lazy, they don’t like to get up and do much, and we aren’t recognizing the importance of education. Secondly I believe that the quote “Students are surprisingly unclear about what constitutes plagiarism or cheating.” Is true because a lot of students do both. Plagiarism is the most obvious problem because students that are looking for information are lazy and they don’t make it their own paragraph or paper. The definition of Plagiarism is “ the act or instance of using or closely imitating the language of thoughts of another author without permission to use such information”. However students should know what the difference is because here at central, we had classes that worked on not plagiarizing, and what it means if you do …show more content…
Also they are the ones to blame for their own actions because they don’t want to work hard, and they believe if they don’t cheat they will not pass or be successful. Ultimately it all is affiliated with motivation. Motivation is the key to all success in life, if someone is motivated to do something, they will try pretty dang hard to accomplish that goal throughout their life or schooling career. But in high school, people tend to lose motivation as the semester goes on. They get lazy, start making excuses, and either resort to cheating, or they don’t do their assignments at all. (Expert on Private schools) One way that teachers, schools, or parents can target and eliminate cheating is teaching in a way that uses real life experiences or knowledge to learn how to do. So you can’t just go search the Internet for the answer, students actually will have to think deep and hard about the problem at hand. This benefits everybody because the students don’t have the chance to try and cheat on anything, and it teaches the students life experiences that they will use for the rest of their time here on
From plagiarism to dishonesty, many high school teenagers cheat just to get a good grade in a class or they simply are bad at that particular subject. They cheat on tests, quizzes, and even on big projects. No matter the circumstance, if you are ever to be caught, you should be served with the toughest of consequences. You should not be trusted. You should have any second chances. After all, even if you don’t get caught for cheating, you are not learning anything the class has to offer.
If a teacher is unfamiliar with current advancements in the digital world, it is possible that they will miss the most obvious of cheaters. Because the student is never punished or caught, they assume the teacher does not consider it cheating. In some cases, schools are responsible for the rise in cheating because of the way curriculum is presented. In an article written by the Atlantic, a teacher received an anonymous letter from a successful college student stating that he had cheated all throughout high school. He told the author he cheated “because the grade [he]would have otherwise been given was not reflective of [his] true learning” (Lahey). In other words, he felt the teachers were giving him exams that were not accurate representations of the material he had learned. If students are giving themselves excuses for their cheating, that feeling of guilt will subside, and they will not view the action as wrong. Many think they are not at fault if they do not get caught or because they are just trying to keep up with their classmates who are cheating as well. These are the students that contribute to the statistics, the ones who are adding to
... is. It seems those of the older generations place more value on the originality of writing material compared to those of the newer age. Maybe it is because they understand the value of enjoyment that comes with creating a work to call your own. For the newer generation, it could be that they do not have the proper guidance. It could also be the availability of information on the internet constantly at their fingertips. For whatever reason, plagiarism is an active part of our writing culture and to properly deal with it is to understand the reasons behind why a certain individual chooses to engage it. Whether it is in college writing or even for an article, plagiarism is never okay.
Situations of cheating have seemed to become more and more commonplace when the student is bored by the subject material, poor teaching and or feels they have no use for the knowledge. Kohn even states in his article, “cheating is more common when students experience the academic tasks they’ve been given as boring, irrelevant, or overwhelming.” This infers that if a student were attending a school interested in learning about art, the student maybe more inclined to cheat in a business accounting class due to the fact the student would find the subject material irrelevant to them and their future. Students seem to be less inclined to cheat and it “is relatively rare in classrooms where the learning is genuinely engaging and meaningful to students and where a commitment to exploring significant ideas hasn’t been eclipsed by a single-minded emphasis on “rigor”” (Kohn). To simplify everything mentioned above; students are inclined to cheat in school when they are disinterested in the subject material and or are overwhelmed by in assignment or finally the result in a poor teacher. Everyone who has attended school can relate to this in some way or another, most people do not want to retain knowledge they have no interest in or use for in their
Cheating is a big issue that has reached the most competitive campuses around the United States. It is increasing more and more with the new technology that we have in the 21st century because students have easy access to many sources of information. Cheating is something all students have done at some point in their lives, but as they reach a higher academic level, they are faced with more rigorous consequences that can affect their futures in many different ways. Cheating might be seen as an easy way to obtain a good grade, get into a good college, or maintain scholarships or financial aid, but the consequences could affect the life and the future of the student.
Studies have found that 64% of student admitted to cheating on a test, 58% admitted to plagiarism, and 95% said they participated in some type of cheating from homework assignments to important tests. Some students seem to have cheated for so long that it doesn't even seem to faze them that what they are doing is wrong. Personally, this truly disturbs me because they probably will never stop and think how wrong it genuinely is. When you cheat, as a student, you learn nothing, which is why cheating is so
Society has a misconceived notion that the cheaters are only the slackers or the students struggling to pass, but in reality, the high-achieving students are the ones who cheat as well (Jaffe). This just shows that cheating isn’t limited to a certain type of student; people cheat for a variety of reasons. But instead of punishing them harshly for the act, educators and parents should be trying to understand why the student had cheated, and what they can do to help them be successful without resorting to cheating. Take, for instance, the case of Chris Loschiavo, a dean who once encountered a student who cheated “as a cry for help” (Loschiavo). This student had been caught cheating multiple times, even after he had admitted to and accepted the consequences, this student had been continually cheating in the same class (Loschiavo).
Resulting from the numerous pressures of high school, academic cheating places a large amount of stress on the minds of American teens. To begin with, low self-esteem and a lack of morals prompt a student to cheat to maintain an acceptable grade. When students pick on a less academically inclined student, the unfortunate student will loose confidence in himself and resort to cheating, cheating that will begin a downward spiral of negative effects. Furthermore, if failing grades persist and plague the student, one will cheat to halt the continuation of unacceptable grades. Secondly, loving parental pressure will generate the need to cheat in school. For example, a child, who is a good student, will cheat, to prove to their parents that they are smart, and that they can achieve their goals throughout their schooling. Additionally, parents want their children to follow in their footsteps in the aspect of the education that they received; therefore, more pressure will be enfo...
The first cause as to why students cheat is because they are lazy. It happens all the time, where students go home from school, have a snack, watch television, take a nap, play some video games, and just keep saying that they will do their homework later. The next thing they know it eleven o’clock at night and time to go to bed, but no homework was accomplished. The student keeps pushing back the assignment until the last minute and the last minute is not enough time. This is also known as procrastination. The student does not want to fail, but they were too lazy to do their own work, so they ask to copy the work from a friend that did the work. I once said something to a guy about how this was cheating and he told me that he was, “using his resources wisely”. Another time I asked a student next to me to stop copying my answers in class and he told, “Then you shouldn’t let me see your answers”, he blamed his cheating on me. One time when I was in seventh grade in my ecology class we had to put together a presentation with a partner. My partner was a close friend at the time, and our topic was solar power. I ended up doing all of the research and put together the presentation a...
There is no specific reason as to why every student cheats; every students situation is different, which leads to different motives. Some students cheat because of pressure their parents put on them along with their parent’s high expectations they are expected to fulfill. The student cheats as a result of their fear of not being able to fulfill their parent’s expectations and in their eyes see no other option, other than to cheat because of their low self confidence that they cannot do well on their own. According to Tom Keana of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, parents affect the children by constantly badgering and questioning about how well they are doing. Tom says:
The justifications behind cheating range from laziness to an unwillingness to put forth the effort to learn the expected material. Some students blame a lack of self-confidence in one’s ability to learn or lack of interest in the subject. Many modern students lack time to devote to academics, because of hectic schedules. Some students blame instructors for not providing clear expectations or practical applications of academic topics, encouraging a student to devote the necessary time to the material.
This form of cheating occurs more often than it should because students may not feel confident in their own work; they are constantly being reminded by society that they must do their best and receive the highest academic achievements. So why has society shamed students for taking such actions when society is partly to blame for the situation. But society is not to blame alone; students themselves are also held at fault, because it is their self-doubt and lack of time management that result in them plagiarizing. If students had the experience of submitting actual personal work, they would understand that being praised by their peers is more appreciable and could add to their overall self-worth. Students would also be proud of the grade they receive because it is one they truly deserve for their hard work and not for the work what someone else has already done. Students do not see how easy they could commit plagiarism without knowing they are plagiarizing. It is as simple as using a quote and not giving credit to those who deserves it. Students also do not seem to know that there are different forms of plagiarism, that there is not just one, but five types of
We might want to first follow that question with another question. What is cheating and why do so many people do it? Most people would agree that cheating is deceitful and one who obtains answers by cheating is not practicing good integrity. We could further add that cheating also prevents the student from having to put in long hours of studying and preparation. Recent technology has made this “time saving method” even more efficient.
However, not everyone feels the need to make excuses, as a poll in the USA shows. Many of the young people questioned admitted that one of the main reasons for cheating was simply laziness. Some of them admitted that they did not cheat when they had studied their lesson. If this is really the case, anyone tempted to cheat should consider the following warning in the book of Proverbs: "The one working with a slack hand will be of little means." (Proverbs 10:4)
Another important reason is the lack of high self-esteem. Students with high self-esteem feel too embarrassed to cheat in exams. Instead, they think they have to study hard so to get full marks thanks to their knowledge. On the other hand, students with low self-esteem cheat on the exams whenever possible. They just think about the good grades because of cheating, and do not feel something wrong for their behavior.