Lack Of Integrity In High School

With technology rapidly advancing, new and better ways of cheating are available to students. As they pass tests without effort and receive grades they don’t deserve, they are forgetting the value of integrity. Integrity is doing what is right even when you can get away with it. It applies in terms of academics, careers, and competitions. Integrity is the basis for justice. The place that probably has the greatest lacking of integrity is school. Students are constantly placed under stress. If they slack off for even a day, it could mean staying up past midnight and failing grades. Panicked students may opt to copy someone else's homework instead of taking the time to put in the effort themselves. Similarly, they may decide not to

When I was taking the Catholic High School Entrance Exam last year, I accidentally switched the number of questions and amount of time we had in my head. When I got to the thirty-fifth question, I stopped working, when in actuality, I had thirty-five minutes, and forty questions. I realized this mistake too late: I only had a minute left to complete five questions. The last three I ended up having to fill in random answers. That was when my integrity was tested. I could see other people's answer sheets, and it looked as though the random answers I chose were all wrong. It would have been so easy to cheat: no one would ever know. I was torn, because I really wanted to earn a scholarship to one of the schools. I even prayed about. In the end, I decided not to change my answers, deciding that whatever happened it was meant to be. All my life I've opposed cheating, because it made me angry that people could get the same grades I did without putting in half the effort. As much as I was tempted, I couldn't let go of my moral standards, even for something important. I knew that if I did cheat, I would be filled with guilt and regret that I could never shake, especially if I did get a scholarship, because I would know that I didn't deserve it. To my astonishment, I received scholarships anyway. I realized that I would never be punished for doing the right thing, and I now value integrity even more than I