Is It Ok to CHEAT to Get Good Grades?

Are you a student?If so, likely you know of fellow students who cheat

in class to get good grades.Indeed,the problem is very widespread.In

2008,the Josephson Institute surveyed nearly 30,000 high school

students in the United states,and 64 percent admitted to cheating on a

test that year.The actual figure,however,is estimated by others to be

higher-more than 75percent.

In Europe too cheating has become a serious plagiarism.''Websites

that sell student essays,master's theses and doctoral dissertations as

ready-made commodities are a new and increasingly worrying problem,''

says an article published by in e-journal Digithum.In Africa it is the

same.

Why has cheating become such a major concern?Does cheating really

benefit those who do it?Is honesty-even if it means lower grades-still

the best policy?

SO WHY THE PLAGUE?

1.AN EROSION OF ETHICS:''Many educators say the rise in cheating is

due to an erosion of ethics in a self-centered culture,'' says the

American School Board Journal.Concerning those in her high school or

Seconday school honors classes,one student admitted;''All of us

cheated,we needed the grades to get into good schools.We were

good,moral students,we weren't like unethical people.We just needed to

get into good universities.'' Even some parents are guilty how?Anxious

to see their offspring succed they either approve of cheating or turn

a blind eye to it,thus further undermining their children's ethics.

2.THE PRESSURE TO SUCCEED:According to Donald McCabe,founder

international Center for Academic Integrity,students who cheat believe

that honesty puts them at a disadvantage compared with others who

cheat and get away with it.

3.THE HELP OF TECHNOLOGY:Mordern tebhnology enables students to cheat

with new levels of sophistication and ease.They can download term

paper and answers for their homework from the Net and share them wit

others.Often,only a small percentage get caught and this emboldens

others.In Nigeria mobile devices are now the in-tin in the sense of

students using it to cheat.

4.THE INFLUENCE BAD EXAMPLES:Cheating has become commonplace in the

adult world in big business corporations,in politics,in sports,and

often even at home,whese parents cheat on income tax or insurance

claims.

WHY CHOOSE NOT TO CHEAT?

Ask yourself this,''What is the goal of a good education?Is it not to

equip students for many of life's responsibilites,such as analyzing

problems in the workplace and solving them?Students who get into the

habit of cheating may fail to learn those valuable skills.Thus,people

who habitually cheat mask their weaknesses and undermine their chances

for success in many areas of life.

Futhermore people who cheat a lot in way are like a fake brand-name

garment or phone that looks genuine but eventually disappoints.



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