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Cheating By Students - School Essays

Cheating By Students

"Cheating in school reflects a basic confusion in society. By emphasizing the wrong things in student testing, we end up inviting a culture of compromise. Teachers are particularly frustrated when parents reveal at home some pride in beating the system - cheating on income taxes, fooling a boss or supervisor, taking supplies from a workplace to use at home - yet want teachers to come down hard on students who cheat."

Write an essay responding to this writer's claim about how society creates a "culture of compromise" because of the mixed messages students may receive from people around them.

When a student is caught cheating, parents come to the school, meet with the teacher and ...

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this in turn is causing a culture of compromise. Whether mom and dad got away with claiming deductions they were not allowed, or they paid someone to help write their high school senior's college entrance essays; today's students are being given the message that cheating is okay as long as one does not get caught.
"Tax evasion by Americans using offshore accounts is rising and will increase" (Johnston, 2001).
Students are being raised in a society that prides itself on being able to cheat. Each day across the nation parents are undercharged for store purchases, or they simply forget to put something up on the belt to be scanned. When they get outside and the mistake is discovered few of them go back into the store to pay for the item. Their children are watching. Thousands of parents each day call in sick to work when they are not sick, and their children sit on the couch and observe. It is not just examples being set by parents that are teaching kids cheating is okay, but ...

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Added: 1/3/2016 04:58:18 AM
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