<p>CHEATING?
i used to think that there were so many smart kids at my school and now i'm finding out that most of them are getting their grades by stealing tests and sharing answers and things. i've also heard about a bunch of kids working together to cheat on the SATs.
i'm mucho angry about it.</p>
<p>does this happen at anyone else's school?</p>
<p>Yeah. My friend got into AP U.S. History. Mostly everyone in their is at the top of the senior class. </p>
<p>With the exception of a few,
Everyone cheats.</p>
<p>I can't see point of cheating. Coming to school for learning and yet destructing your own honesty for some piece of sheit paper with As is straight stupid.</p>
<p>I blame the system.</p>
<p>Though I never condone cheating, I must say</p>
<p>"Don't hate the player, hate the game"</p>
<p>Indeed, people in my school actually pay the smart kids to take the SAT's for them. And students do work in conjunction to get better grades...they don't care as long as they get the A...and of course, when I report it...the other students think I'm a tattletale/rat...geez...</p>
<p>Pshhh I cheat. Usually on unimportant stuff though. If it makes me a "bad" person or a fake then so be it.</p>
<p>Many students live in an environment where the consequences for getting grades that would disappoint their parents are more severe (or so it appears to them) then the consequences of cheating. By consequences, I mean realistic consequences. Most students will never be caught. Some who are will never be seriously punished.</p>
<p>No one ever, ever, rats another student out. There's almost nothing worse a student could do.</p>
<p>Some "piece of sheit paper with As" represents the entire future for these kids. Learning is relative. It's about success.</p>
<p>Many students live in an environment where the consequences for getting grades that would disappoint their parents are more severe (or so it appears to them) then the consequences of cheating. By consequences, I mean realistic consequences. Most students will never be caught. Some who are will never be seriously punished.</p>
<p>No one ever, ever, rats another student out. There's almost nothing worse a student could do.</p>
<p>Some "piece of sheit paper with As" represents the entire future for these kids. Learning is relative. It's about success.</p>
<p>Obviously BandTenHut, there are parents like that...my parents are like that too, but I don't cheat...</p>
<p>Why should other students gain advantage over another in such an unfair way? Why should one student who is smart but cheats, get into a better college than the other student who is smart but doesn't cheat? </p>
<p>Cheating will never be seriously punished? Ever heard of plagiarism cases? Turnitin.com? These cases are put on permanent records...and almost ruins the future for these students. Wouldn't you call that a serious punishment?</p>
<p>And no one should rat another student out? Why shouldn't they if it is the right thing to do?</p>
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Most students will never be caught. Some who are will never be seriously punished.
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That's true. Out of all the students in my school, less than 1% are caught. And their punishment?
Suspension? Expulsion? No. More like consecutive detentions. Maybe add in some letter writing to the parents explaining this circumstance.</p>
<p>And the small minority that rat the students out? Even non-cheaters frown at them in my school.</p>
<p>"Cheating will never be seriously punished?"</p>
<p>I didn't say that.</p>
<p>yeah, cheating sucks. i dont do it, some people at my school do. it's not usually the people who are actually smart, it's the people that aren't extremely smart and wouldn't get good grades if they just studied a lot because my school is ridiculously hard sometimes so they find other ways (cheating) to get the grades they want.
i used to get really ****ed off because in some classes the cheaters would get decent grades on tests that everyone else basically failed and the teacher would be like 'oh well sally got a 92 so obviously the test was fair and you all jsut didnt study enough' but then none of the cheaters did well on the SATs so it's not like they're getting into any Ivies either.</p>
<p>regardless of whether it will get you a bad grade, but people who do cheat usually do feel guilty afterwards...</p>
<p>I'd imagine cheating is like murder -- once you kill ten people, you don't really care too much if you kill any more. Similarly, if you cheat a few times, it becomes a normal part of your life and you stop feeling guilty.</p>
<p>Not that I either cheat or kill people :)</p>
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I dont feel guilty.
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then do you think cheating is a morally good thing?</p>