Students constantly cheat, but cheating isn’t the right way of learning and can affect many things later down the line.
Cheating is wrong, and asking questions is always better than getting answers from a friend.
Cheating can cause students to not have the proper knowledge needed to understand the concepts that they have to know. Learning includes getting answers wrong in order to understand what you need to change, and though school may feel stressful, cheating will cause even more stress when students realize they are lost. According to Academic integrity.ucsd.edu, “Cheating takes place when a student attempts to attain academic credit through dishonest, disrespectful, irresponsible, untrustworthy, or unfair means. This not only misrepresents a student’s knowledge and abilities but also undermines the instructor’s capacity to assess them honestly and fairly. Moreover, cheating erodes the university’s ability to genuinely and impartially certify a student’s knowledge and abilities.” Not only does this prove the claim, but it also enhances it. Cheating is not representative of where students are in learning, misguiding the student.
Others may argue that because of how stressful school is, students should be able to cheat. Students deserve more credit from what they have to go through every single day. While it may be true that school is hard, and sometimes it feels like no one understands, it doesn’t mean that true and natural education isn’t important. Most students are so focused on getting answers wrong and how people will react, when in reality, everyone is learning the same things at the same times, and it’s okay to be just a little off.
In order for cheating to stop, many things need to change. Students’ main reason for cheating is because they are stressed and scared. In order for this to stop, school needs to be a place that students will always want to come back to.
If we make just a few changes to make school more comfortable for students, cheating would stop and maybe, students’ main worries will go away.
