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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/13mon4.html?ref=opinion
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The culture of cheating seen in modern-day high school is one that I personally don't believe can be eradicated through encouraging students to behave. Rather, the only option is a more disciplinary atmosphere, one where cheating has greater consequences. The casual thought given to certain amounts of cheating is the problem. Instead of hardcore total plagiarism being the greatest problem, the casual cheating done on quizes and homework is the serious issue. Those kind of things aren't even considered cheating by those students. But, if a culture was created since a very young age where cheating was dealt with very harshly, more of a positive result would occur, reducing cheating very much. To be totally honest, I avoid cheating more because I am very bad at it, and would get caught, rather than my personal preference to do my own work, which to my own credit, isn't a negligable thought. A culture has to be created where cheating is discouraged for moral reasons rather than fear of getting caught. But such a culture would not be applicable as an immediate solution.
ReplyDeleteCheating is something that has been less strict when students enter higher grades in school. As kids get bigger, the guilt of cheating decreases because everyone is doing it and they believe good grades is really important. However, it doesn't mean its right. Students are pressured with recieveing high grades by their parents, teachers and themselves. Also, if you cheat on something to recieve a good grade, you won't comprehend the information and therefore not remember it later on in life. I don't know how well these classes will be to help stop cheating, but stopping it seems to be a big priority.
ReplyDeleteStealing, lying and cheating used to be in core values taught by teachers and parents. Now, since the hot topics to discuss in classrooms and at home are sex,drugs and violence, cheating in class and how it is morally unethical, is ignored. What's more, as far as pressure being put on students increasing more at home and in school, there is not enough time in the day to study hardcore for every single test in every single subject. Do we justify cheating simply because of the amount of pressure we have as students to do well? To what point are we pushing society so far to be perfect? Where does education end and competition begin?
ReplyDeleteI think that cheating is not the best way to get through school and pass classes because in the real world, with a real job, cheating will only lead to failure. I think that it is a good idea to try and encourage honesty out of students because honesty will grant you more throughout life. It will not only help you become more successful but it will grant you the respect of others, which in the long run will help you strive a long way. However, I was really suprised that 90% said that they have cheated and I think this is, in a way.... rather disgusting...
ReplyDeleteI agree that a lot of people are cheating and I know that it is running rampant in high school but I don’t really know what can be done to stop it. Instead of saying that we have to stop cheating, we should ask why are kids cheating maybe the kids today are a lot more lazy then kids of the past, that is very possible and I am by no means ruling this out. Or maybe the kids don’t understand the material that they are tested on, if the curriculum is harder than it was in the 1960’s and the student body cant keep up with it they will be much more likely to cheat then the students of the past. Maybe the curriculum needs to be changed and some teachers stop giving so much a large volume of work so the kids can understand the material well enough so that they don’t have to cheat. After all the people that cheat will pay for it because in the real world you cant copy their colleges work without getting left behind.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a display of the decline of the culture of the U.S. Values like honesty and integrity really just don't mean much nowadays. Our overall attitude is somewhere in the lines of just not caring. It's our own prosperity that probably caused this and it may only be resolved through crisis. Parents need to hold their kids to higher moral standards but people only seem to learn from enduring through conflict.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the increase in cheating, plagarism and copying is a direct result to the stresses outside of school. Especially in times like today, students are more concerned with their sports, love life or drug addiciton that when it comes to school students feel obligated to cheat because it is worth the chance, for many feel as if they will fail anyway. This is why the punishment for cheating, plagarism and copying should be much more harsh, especially because it is unfair to those who are suceeding independently. If the punishment is taken to a higher extent then students will not be so vulnerable to cheat, even if influenced by one's peers.
ReplyDelete- Tori L.