Cheating allows students to not Put in the maximum effort to get their grade up. According to Middle Earth, 66% of students say they have cheated on a test, 80% say they have copied someone else"s homework, and 58% say they have plagiarized (middleearthnj, middleearthnj,com, 2015). These numbers show that almost everybody in school is cheating in some way, shape, or form. The students that are cheating are not putting in the same amount of effort that the students that do not cheat are. This is unfair for the students that do not cheat, and leads to many more problems for the students who do cheat.
Although cheating is very bad, some students are so stressed out that they have no other choice. According to Andrew Simmons, students competing at Ivy League schools may turn to cheating to get keep a bad test score form ruining their hard work (Andrew Simmons, edutopia.org, 2018). Students want to maintain all of their hard work by cheating in order to keep their high grades and achievements. These students are also kept at high standards, which stresses them out and make them want to keep their good grades even more.
I believe students should be punished harshly if they cheat. Cheating shows laziness, which shows that some students are not willing to work hard to get good grades. These students are the students who cheat more often to get good enough grades to pass. This is unfair to the students they are cheating off of, because those students worked much harder than the students cheating. Students should be suspended for cheating, and given 0's on the assignment/test they were cheating on.
Although corporal punishment is an effective and efficient way to correct poor behavior, I disagree that it should be allowed in schools. Studies have shown that physical punishment has negative effects on a child's mental well-being. In addition, it would be difficult to monitor all teachers to ensure that they are not abusing their students rather than disciplining them.
ReplyDeleteSometimes students may cheat out of necessity, because everyone has a different situation. An extreme example is if a student spends all of their time providing for their family, they won't have the time to study. If they want to still get the good grades required for college, they may feel the necessity to cheat.
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