EPT Essay #2 Cheating Affects Society
Mari Pearlman in the LA Times, “Cheating In School Reflects Basic Confusion In Society”, (August 22, 1999) asserts that the problem of cheating in school causes improper habits in their everyday life. Students awarely cheat habitually on any work they are given in a classroom but do not want to do. The simple act of cheating may not seem as if it can cause such trouble, however this simple act can lead to future negative habits you do daily causing a confusion between whether or not cheating is that much of harm.
Cheating does not seem bad to many. Admittedly my friends, nor I have ever put much thought into the concept of cheating. A majority of the times we have cheated, we did not even notice we were cheating. It becomes habitual for many students that they are not aware of contributing to such a terrible action. Cheating in school creates bad habits that causes
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Once students start cheating they get lazy and allow themselves to result to cheating just so they will not have to do their work furthermore thinking it is less wok on their end. This mindset builds the addiction to continue to cheat, but students do not realize this hurts them worse than just completing their work themselves instead. Cheating affects how they portray themselves societal as well. Students who cheat have constructed a society of individuals who are dependent on others to get their work done.
Although cheating reflects students negatively, the excuse of having “no-time” also comes into play. Students are also individuals, humans. They work alongside playing sports while also juggling school work and a healthy amount of sleep. Some have no time to set the time to study for the tests or stay up all night finishing all the assignments. Students lack enough time which forms the need to cheat for extra help. Most times when students need extra help, they accept it and move on rather than it becoming a