it depends.
if you’re not a second semester senior who doesn’t care at all about classes, then it’s bad. if you are, then unless you cheat, you will get 0 and fail school and that will be bad since entire class will fail. so it is only good if you are second semester senior.
Believe it or not, some people actually cheat off of me (then again, I do take academic classes… ) I don’t support it but I understand it. Most colleges don’t care whether an applicant cheats or not throughout his or her high school career as long as he or she has a good GPA to apply with.
And then this is where the good college come in; they decide on your admission wholistically (i.e: essay, ECs, etc.) and not just your GPA! Which is why I don’t really react to cheaters as much as others do, since it’ll eventually bite them in the butt.
As a high school student, cheating allows students to have a life. I;m not condoning cheating on tests, but homework collaboration is a must do. Then, everyone can put their time into other passtimes.
@jjrusell10 My high school teacher actually encourages us to work on the homework together, and to form study groups. People do that in college (form study groups, that is). I wouldn’t exactly consider it as “cheating” though (unless one person finishes it and everyone else copies off of the paper.)
As for my views, cheaters really tick me off for reasons many posters above described. They basically steal opportunities from those that actually deserve them, and it really ticks me off.
@rkepp12
I’m months late, but you could’ve reported that situation to the school as well (as you could have been on the honor roll and those students were cheating), I would’ve hope the school would listen to your side as well, although I don’t really know what their policy is.
Don’t care about cheating at all. Those who rely on it usually screw themselves over in the long run. Then there’s some who copy homework because they have a ton of it, but I’ve noticed they copy the subjects they know reaaally well, and devote the time saved towards subjects they have trouble in, and I’ve done this myself. So I guess it’s on what level you’re cheating, and who’s affected by it, that determines my acceptance towards it.
I think that if you cheat you’re just making things harder for yourself in the long run. For example, if you cheat on a class test where you learn the vocab for a unit of a language class, then you won’t have actually learnt it. So when there’s a major exam, you will have to study more than everyone else, or else, cheat again. And if you cheat again, then the cycle will just keep going on and it’s common knowledge that when you keep going, eventually someone will always catch you out. It’s so much easier for yourself if you just learn the basic information in the first place.
It really depends on the context. In my opinion, I couldn’t care less if someone cheats or not. I have cheated before. I’ve handed over homework for others to copy as well, and I’ve been caught a few times. Sometimes people need other ways of making it to the top, and if it bothers you, then you shouldn’t do it. If their morals are terrible, then that’s them. You keep your good morals, but if someone who is cheating isn’t hurting you, then why do you care? Because their morals stink? I believe in any means to get an advantage that doesn’t directly harm someone.
I feel that cheating is a personal issue.
I don’t mind if someone cheats because it’s gonna end somehow.
Cheating isn’t a long term solution for long term success in my opinion.
The worst thing is that a lot of kids who cheat are intelligent, just lazy, so through cheating they’ll have stellar grades and then they only have to put in minimal effort to prep for the SAT/ACT, which they’ll ace as well. Or they’ll figure out a way to cheat on that, as well, using prescriptive drugs like Adderall or just plain googling the answers as a few kids in one SAT I took blatantly did. Fortunately, that lack of work ethic is bound to catch up to them, but unfortunately sometimes it comes after they take a spot at a top college or a valedictorian slot away from someone who deserves it more.
as a teenager I will admit to nothing, but as an observant high school student I will say that the people who need to cheat aren’t getting 4.0. In fact, they are the ones who are stuggling to survive in high school and just need to pass the class. on the other hand it has become so easy to cheat that its use for people who can achieve 4.0’s is like a security blanket. Also as an achieving high school student with empathy, its hard to look the other way when your classmate/friend/sibling is failing so what I call “sharing the wealth” with my own intelligance doesnt seem so bad. It doesn’t harm my own academic standing but only helps the student get a c in the class
(This isn’t a response to anyone in particular. I was just thinking about cheating because I’ve been working for an academic program this summer.)
The currency of education is understanding, not answers. Letting someone cheat is not an act of kindness; it just shows that you don’t believe in them and you don’t care whether they really understand the material. (Doing your work without cheating is “safer” and more efficient than trying to find a way to cheat, so I assume that people only cheat when they don’t understand something.) If people are asking you for homework answers, the best response is to either help them find the answers on their own or refer them to a particular page in the textbook that would allow them to get started.
When you said cheating, I thought of relationship cheating
I don’t necessarily condone homework cheating unless it’s something that you never do the homework for the class and you’re always asking me for it. If we are working together on the homework like in a study group or something i don’t think that should be punished because study groups help a lot. What really bothers me is cheating on tests and quizzes, which both really weigh a lot in the final grade of the class, and by getting a better grade by cheating, you’re messing up the curve and class rank, which you don’t deserve if you cheated your way into both.
Please don’t necro the old thread. It has been more than a while that people stopped posting
I don’t think many people with 4.0s cheat. It’s just too hard to get that high of a grade solely off of cheating. I think the people who cheat are those who barely scrape by without failing and maybe those who get to the low-to-mid 70s (on a 100 point scale.) While it is extremely dishonest and wrong, I don’t think that people who cheat are getting any recognition and shouldn’t pose a threat to you if you have good grades.
I will not cheat because if you are caught once at my school, you go in go front of the academic board and face a possible expulsion. So, st least at my school, people don’t cheat their way to a 4.0
Lol people who cheat on tests are losers. I only cheat in homeworks and that is only if I dont have a single clue about it.
Cheating on tests is so lame.
“Lol people who cheat on tests are losers. I only cheat in homeworks…”
It makes me feel better to know that folks still have personal standards.