Essay on Cheating in the Classroom – Easy Results or Future Problem?
Unfortunately, cheating is a rather widespread practice among students. There are students who believe that cheating is a normal practice and do not see anything wrong in it. Sometimes cheating is worth more effort than normal study practice but students still turn to this practice. Among possible reasons I see not serious attitude to the study process. Students who do not correlate their future success and knowledge they obtain in the classroom do not understand that fake success in the classroom is temporary and will turn into great problems in the future. In addition, the very idea of reaching any goal using dirty methods can cause serious problems and become fatal for the future career.
In video “Faking the Grade: Classroom Cheaters” the authors express an idea that cheating results in further cheating and makes other feel uncomfortable unless they join the people who cheat. I think that only people who are too much dependant on the opinion of others and do not have well-defined moral and ethical standards can follow cheating practice. As long as individual has his or her defined moral position he or she will not join the group who perform ethical doubtful actions. At the same time adherence to such behavior justified to join the group of people may be an indicator of extreme dependence of social surrounding.
The authors of the movie also state that even good people can turn to dishonesty and cheating when they are placed in situation when they are made to do so. For some people cheating may seem an easy way out, others do not realize seriousness of their behavior and possible negative consequences. Researches state that people who turn to cheating in collage or at the University will most probably use it as normal practice in their further life. To my mind, honesty, same as kindness, generosity and compassion belong to the qualities of well-developed personality and they are natural to all humans. Even worst criminals feel they do something wrong when they commit crimes. Each person has an inner feeling of right and wrong and cheating is recognized as wrong and destructive pattern of behavior even if we do not admit this. Sometimes cheating seems to be an easy way out but it has negative long-time consequences and it has negative impact on our personality.
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