Cheating Crashes Into New Generation
Arick Ames Staff Writer
Cheating is the infamous act of being rewarded by dishonest means. Now, cheating is a very common occurrence in high school and colleges in the United States. Over 70 percent of students in public schools admit to cheating. That includes peeking at tests, copying other’s homework among other tactics.
One of the enormous contributions in the trend of cheating is the new revolution of high-tech digital information. Students now-a-days get information so fast it’s ridiculous. Not only can people look up things on the internet with their devices, but if someone has a camera phone, they can take pictures of tests or quizzes, MP3 players can store digitalized notes and graphing calculators can even hold math formulas.
Now don’t go using these to your advantage, it’s just an example.
There must be something wrong with the school systems in our country if students have to cheat to just get by. And educational leaders back that up.
“When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning,” Neil DeGrasse Tyson stated on boardofwisdom.com.
Cheating doesn’t just affect academics; It can occur in sports, relationships and even video games. People are always looking for a way to be the best but wanting to do it in an easier way. No one really takes the time to actually earn something by doing it the traditional way. That traditional way is effort. We have become so lazy as a society that cheating is almost normal. Even though we know what the consequences are, we still do it.
As a whole, we should learn how to achieve things without shortcuts. It may not be as fast as cheating, but in the long-run it will be more effective for yourself. I don’t want to sound like an old geezer saying the new generation is corrupt and that we have nothing going for us, but there should be a point where the line is drawn between putting forth effort and not trying at all.
