A tribute.. to INTEGRITY

ever_after
Wed, 17 May 2006 19:22:55 +0000

Really, others cheating isn’t affecting anyone else. It’s all how people choose to get to a certain point. Their cheating isn’t what’s keeping you out of your school, or keeping you from getting good grades.

Cheating does affect other people indirectly. Colleges do not have an infinite student body - they are forced to reject someone somewhere. If this person didn’t cheat and got a 3.5 while someone who got a 3.75 by cheating (while he would have gotten a 3.0) was accepted, then the first person is affected by the second.

One cheater might not make a difference, but there are many defrauding their way through high school and college. If someone is rejected as a result, then their rewarding experience of learning is diminished.

I know for a fact that I and one other person are the only people not to have cheated in my grade. One of my teachers is handicapped and in a wheelchair. Other students take advantage of this by placing open books on the floor and employing elaborate mirror systems. She isn’t helping the problem either - two students turned in the SAME 25 page research paper that they had gotten from a previous student. She cried while lecturing us about integrity and then gave them both C’s because if they had done the work, she thought they would have gotten B’s. She refused to notify the administration because she did not want anything on their official transcript. In my opinion, colleges deserve to know what sort of students they are admitting.