Why Cheating Is Wrong

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Cheating is wrong. Students have learned this from the time we started testing. We grew up with folders stood surrounding our tests to minimize the opportunity for cheating. I once had a friend in fourth grade who sat next to a boy named Matthew who always cheated off her tests. One time she filled in all wrong answers on her bubble sheet and after he had copied her work and turned his test in, changed all the answers back to the ones she had actually solved for. Up until about sixth grade, people who cheated on tests were about as couples and anyone who asked someone else for homework to copy would be met with denial and disapproval. Jr. High was when things changed. Friends groups became increasingly reliable sources of answers for nearly …show more content…

My cheating activity peaked in eighth grade and has steadily decreased since. I have generally tried to only copy when I already have a strong grasp on the material, which is why math has historically been such an easy class for me to copy in, as math has always been relatively easy for me to understand. That was until this year in AP Calculus BC, where I understand little to nothing until after the unit has passed, leading to a one hundred per cent drop in homework-copying. I have never plagiarized an essay from a sibling, stolen an upperclassman’s old science fair project, paid someone to do my online homework, or anything quite this drastic. I did “check my answers” with the girl diagonally in front of me on about a third of a biology test my freshman year and have felt guilty about that “A” ever since. Sophomore year I also sparknoted the entirety of the Odyssey. I have come to realize that cheating is cheating, no matter how many points you gain from it, but still may send certain amounts of homework to stressed friends in

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