Cheating is all around us!

Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception

By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA, NYTIMES.com

The main idea of this article named "Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception" is basically about students all over the nation who's cheating to get good grades in school for stuff they can just study for and earn the grade themselves.

The details/evidence used in this article is research from the top college professor researchers all over the nation who actually take the time to study this to see why it's happening and if there's anything anyone can do to stop it because cheating on anything/test/quiz etc. isn't right because then the cheater isn't learning anything.

My opinion on this article is that what the people are doing isn't right but then again you can't really blame them because like the article states parents and teachers alike aren't telling them cheating is wrong because they expect them to be above cheating especially the kids at the top of there class. One connection I can infer to this article however was when I was in 5-6th grade I used to get bad grades for other unrelated reasons to the article. So whenever my class had tests I'd do the best I could until I got to something I absolutely couldn't answer then I'd call the teacher to support me but I couldn't quite get it so that's when I'd cheat off of another students paper and to this day I regret doing that because it wasn't fair to them that I did that and it wasn't fair to me either because if I just studied like i was supposed to I wouldn't have to be cheating off of anyone at all.

This article has helped me to think more about what's currently going on around me in school or in the real world. I say this because it helped me to re-realize that people will cheat to get what they want in life even though there not really learning the information themselves. I also think more about it because some people who cheat already know the answer believe it or not and they just get to lazy to get the answer themselves so they get the answer and then "test" it by looking another students paper. My question to whoever can answer it is why/how are people cheating if your claiming to make sure they don't and if you can "tell" when they are and then how come they're not prepared to be able to answer the question (s) on there own if your telling them to go home and study. My 2nd opinion/question is why are they close enough to each other to cheat in the first place you should keep the kids separated enough to disable them from cheating.