Cheating on the Rise Among High School Students

cheating

i think that cheating is awesome!!!

Good grades vs. success

Cheating to achieve good grades gives the illusion of success. In our society, the acquisition of knowledge is secondary to achieving and maintaining high marks in school. There are few students who can be counted on to truly achieve both good grades and acquire the the knowledge they are responsible for learning. It is proven through study and experience that the major factor in a young person's edification is parental involvement. How many times as a parent have you sat down with your child and helped them study or review? Have you actually checked on your student's ability to handle his coursework, or have you relied on report cards, notes home or what your child reports to you? When your child comes home and you ask about their day, do you settle for, "fine?" Make all the excuses you want: blame it on the teachers, overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, or this ominous "pressure" JT from OR is using to mask the issue. American students are spoiled, impatient and unwilling to earn success. The traditional grading system is set up to identify a student's measured success with the coursework. An "A" student has mastered every aspect of the material while a failing student may have to repeat the course to achieve an acceptable level of skill and knowledge to pass the class. As much a child may believe, repeating a course is not the end of the world. Yes, there is the issue of losing face among peers, but school is for learning. What we do when we water down the material, our standards or expectations or "ease up" on these kids is a great disservice. This disservice spreads like a cancer through many aspects of our society and it's malignancy is proving fatal. Let their mettle be measured and encourage your kids to keep trying. It's only OK to fail if you didn't learn from your mistakes and try, try again.

Cheating... Texas or otherwise

I am a Texas computer teacher, and I find that students are pressured to "succeed". We have kids who have their parents grandstanding getting "good" grades when they have so many activities on their plates they do not have time to do anything resembling homework, and God help us if it interferes with athletics. They give them "passes" if they are good athletically but not academically, and we are pressured to "get them thru". So, the no pass no play is a joke (unlike in Michigan where I grew up and thay had that back in the 60's) because athletes have to pass!!!

Another thought, we have ipods, mp3 players, cell phones, and other electronic devices...texting makes test giving a true challenge when they can text during a test. We are challenged when we ask to remove phones. Everyone thinks they have a right to do what they want. And, people wonder why teachers leave....

High School Students Cheating

This occurs primarily because of parents values taught at home.

I have experienced the brightist of students with this behavior.

How do we resolve this behavior? One strategy is for educators getting back to expectations of honesty and hands-on performance while circulating the classrooms to prevent technology transmissions.

we cheat beacause we are lazy

we cheat because we are lazy... simple as that. this is coming from a 11th grade public high school student

Cheating is Underrated In Our Society

I''m surprised that the results from the statistics don't show any higher percentages. High school students are pressured by the colleges to have high GPAs in order for them to even consider applying, parents want their kids to be successful, and the communities all label certain students as "role models" and want to also see that kid successful because it makes them proud.

The statistics are skewed 1) because not every student they've talked to will admit to cheating or plagiarism, 2) if you're going to do something once, chances are you're going to do that again, and 3) what about cheating on daily assignments. It's just appalling because dishonesty happens all around us and yet it can be said that only 64% of the people cheated on a test or at least admitted to doing so.

I think that cheating doesn't stem from bad teaching, I believe it comes from sheer laziness. I am guilty of cheating but it wasn't because of a bad teacher or because I did not understand the material, it was because I simply did not care. English vocab tests had no importance to me and why would I ever need to learn calculus. I was all a waste of time to me and my fellow students. As an aspiring chef I don't need any of those so I was reluctant to put forth anymore effort than needed. I believe that cheating in high school also comes from the ridiculous amount of testing students go through. I had first hand experience and I can I honestly say I was tested on something in my 8 classes at least 3 times a week. Will I ever use the stuff I learned, some of it maybe, but most of it no. The education system needs to be reformed so students want to come to school, not for class rankings and money, but because they want to learn. Obnoxious amounts of homework and testing is not the answer. I went through the system...I know.

im a student myself and this survey is sorta right. i mean you can't expect

students to know everything. In the "real world" it's nothing like that. No one

cares if you had a higher GPA twenty years ago all they care about is that whether

or not you're doing a good job. Like Mcdonalds yeah stupid example.... but no one cares

about you being a valedictorian. The real world doesnt grade you on stupid tests,

it's all about getting money and that's it. Plus every adult (yes inluding politions) cheet

their way through tough spots. Is it wrong that they want to reach the top? That is wjhat

our parents put in our heads though right? Reach the top and you'll never

look down again. Also it's survival of the fittest and who is actually going to

remember 10th grade chemistry thirty years from now?

I cheated to get my GED, why quit now?

I cheat on everything. It makes me feel alive.

Honesty is still a virtue

Whatever young Americans say about their experiences in cheating and their pragmatist opinion about life successes, honesty is still at least a virtue recognizable in the public field. Until frauds are overwhelmingly demonstrated either thru massive public opinions or legal procedures , under-suspicion persons produce counter-arguments to defend their cases as necessary with understandable fiercity. But in general, peoples try to get away from complicating situations by not cheating or cheat with very-low probability of getting caught.

Students or employees often cheat in the condition that they assess harmless to nobody. They might cheat by copying others' work , but quite often with understanding the subject or with implicitness that the subject is easily handled with more time or circumstantial availability. Workers also cheat at the interview with C.V. details because they know the job can be handled whatsoever without C.V. cumbersomeness that is required by employers for their "tranquilité d'esprit".

As a matter of fact, history and the way that a society has been organized and ideologized contain more cheatings than in scholar or labor environments. If not, why there is no effective control over extravagant collections of power, prestige, money thru histories of nations and their contemporanity, particularly with evidence in the proliferation of mercantilism at the disadvantage of healthy, non-lucractive social structures to allow more freedom , more creativity and more security at individual citizen 's operatives and whereabouts .

So it is evident that to make a society sober, there are fundementals that politics need to be made more transparent and responsible with serious procedures of democracy such that political decisions are easy to understand, verified by a considerable number of citizens and students. When USA and other countries' democracy grow mature to the point that a secondary shool student can make an exercize alone or a workshop with his peers to prepare a national budget , like he could do a tax declaration? If statistics are well prepared and organized, and made accessible and workable toward an objective, the power of politics (turnable to policies making abilities) is no longer an exclusive privilege of a class of pompous , greedy statesmen but completely exercizable by students and interest citizens without tricks and cheats.

So far paradoxically human beings turmoil themselves with "crisis" due to lack of fundemental , concrete assessment of human facts and rather pushed or deluded into dreams or reveries for unfounded prestiges or powers or for those's rewarding coward submissiveness on behalf of a rigid hierarchical world order. To make the "cheat" issue less bearing on life, certainly a minimum of generosity is required along with the virtue of honesty.