Students Cheat Ourselves Out Of An Education Daniel Ross Summary

The article, “Students Cheat Themselves Out of an Education,” by Daniel Ross.

Informs the reader that several students were caught cheating and plagiarizing. It also

mentions the scandal in SMC surrounding Eamonn Daniel Higgins. Students Cheat

Themselves Out of an Education by Daniel Ross says, “Higgins was formally charged with

fraudulently assuming the identity of over 100 international students throughout a number

of academic institutions in California, including SMC, in order to taek exams under their

name.” Higgins admitted that he helped over 800 students from 2002 to 2009, the ICE was

only aware of around 100. Therefore I agree to the quote, “Cheating is going to happen.

There is no way to stop it.” I believe that it is impossible for teacher

to stop students from
cheating.
Even though cheating to me is a taoo, it is not fair for someone to cheat, because theirs
people who study hard to get what they have.

In my first year in SMC I have seen several

of my classmates cheat while we are taking a test. For example, in my Anatomy class the

guy who sat next to me would cheat every time we had a test. He would have hes whole arm

written with notes of what the test covered. The guy did not get caught and passed the

class with a B. That is why I strongly agree that it is imposible to stop someone from

cheating. Unfortanetly people still do it. I have friends that cheat while they are takign a

test. They either write notes on their desk or they use the excuse to go to the restroom and

google what ever problem their having with the test. It sounds like what one of the

instructor’s said in the article Students Cheat Themselves Out of an Education by Daniel

Ross. The instructor said, “he found a student Googling the results of an exam on an

iPhone.” The article mentions Turnitin.com, a website that allows teachers to download

submitted assignments into one large database. If the teacher believes that the assignment

is to ‘good’ for that student, in other words plagiarized, the teachers submit to turnitin.com

and it would show them if its from any other assignment. Even though teachers

have
access to this wonderful website, students still plagiarized. I don’t know why people like to
cheating, when someone cheats you don’t learn anything and it also dishonest. People
learn from bad experiences and by working hard. Yet there’s still students who like to
cheat. Once again that is why I say, “that it is impossible to stop someone from cheating!”