Moving From Cheating To Academic Honesty By Eugene Bratek

“Moving from Cheating to Academic Honesty”, which is an article about the increased academic dishonesty in schools, written by author Eugene Bratek, there are multiple points brought up about how children adults and school systems alike are to blame. I agree with these statements up to the point of which some successful students “cheat to thrive” and that technology does not play a role in academic dishonesty. However, the main point that lying and cheating are only beneficial to a certain extent and that if caught a former cheater’s life could completely derail. College is a victim of academic dishonesty similar if not completely alike to High, Middle, and Elementary schools. An example of mass academic dishonesty in the college environment is written within the article. The author explains “This was at play in a recent cheating scandal at Harvard University, where as many as 125

I learned this when I was in the eighth grade when though I was not the one cheating I was being greatly affected by it. I had studied for a math test since my grades in that particular subject were not very good, and did rather well on the test. A week later the teacher announced that someone had posted the answers to that particular test on the wall of an english classroom and on the internet, therefore, it would have not been worth anything; they strengthened the consequences of cheating after that and many students experienced a slip in their grades. These students were likely the ones who found answers and cheat sheets online and used them to have good grades in their classes making them appear to be smarter and need less assistance with the subject than they really did. Therefore if a person needs to use the internet and cheating to thrive then without the dishonesty, they would not be thriving at