I totally can’t agree with what most students think cheating is acceptable. I totally agree with their argument that cheaters always win that they are rarely caught. Even if they are caught, they can wave their lowest grade out of the scale that it wouldn’t have an effect on their grade. Overall, the cheater can spend less effort and get a higher grade than those who study yet only get the 80s. Many times, people would just say, “Why do I have to place myself at such a disadvantage? I should start cheating as well to keep up with others.” This issue is fundamentally the school responsibility that they should enforce stricter rules and place harder punishment to those who cheated without letting the cheater felt they can escape easily that consequences for cheating is relatively low. I wouldn’t know if cheating is common in our school, but I would say there are indeed several cases where people cheat. I totally agree that no one in their life have ever committed any cheating. However, I will like to clarify what’s the definition of cheating. Cheating would be completely copying and plagiarizing other people’s work. In many cases, people are merely paraphrasing other’s idea when they want to take a look at other’s homework assignment. It is fine people can share works that by studying other’s work, it inspire creativity and makes oneself better. For example, would it be cheating if I wrote an essay based on what I have read in Shakespeare’s play? Would I be copying and cheating by incorporating some plots that share similarity to his play? No. Cheating is definitely bad. There are no excuses for it. However, paraphrasing is ok that at least you are putting the ideas down with your own word and have thought about them instead of just copying the answers down.
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