<p>Well although I beilive academic integrity is important, i think school systems can be a little harsh…let me give an example: a senior at my school has a perfect GPA (str8 As from Freshman year with many AP classes), she was a star student, as she was involved in many extracuricular activities incl. several honor societies. Unfortunatly she did forge some tutoring hours that she needed for an honor society. Although I do not necessarily condone her actions, I feel the punishment she received was harsh: suspension. I think a more positive punishment would be to remove her from the honor society and force her to do some community service (maybe saturday school and a strong lecture). However the schools decision to suspend her, hurt her future academically and is quite disapointing…maybe its jsut me but schools need to chill out. At my school kids are often suspended longer for cheating than assulting other kids, which makes no sense to me. because assulting another student is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000X worse than cheating, but thats just my 2 cents, lemme know wat u guys think</p>