Brittany Koondel Consequences of Cheating

In high school many students cheat because of the pressure of doing good and getting into good colleges. If your caught the consequences aren't that harsh. Teachers often will not report it to the principal but they will sometimes give the student a zero for that assignment. I have even seen teachers allow students to retake the test they cheated on and give them a second chance. I don't think the consequences of cheating in high school are harsh enough because if students can get by knowing they didn't get caught they will most likely continue doing it for the rest of their life, it can lead into a cycle of not being able to get by without cheating. If students in high school know they can get away with it without the consequences being too bad then they will never learn their lesson.

There is a huge difference between cheating in high school and in college that many people don't know of. In high school teachers may not care as much because high school students are usually minors which means they cant get in that much trouble anyway, in college your an adult which means you would have to take the responsibility of an adult. In high school teachers are supposed to be preparing their students for college but cheating in college could give you a bad reputation with teachers that could be helping you with recommendations and internships in the future, if students know the consequences of cheating in high school aren't that bad there is no reason they wouldn't do it in college, especially when i class has up to 300 people in it they think it is impossible to be caught by a professor.

I think cheating is never acceptable no matter what the circumstances are. Taking the chance, to me isn't worth a consequence that can change the rest of your life. It can get you kicked out of college it makes you seem like a dishonest person. Especially if your in college you as well as you parents probably worked hard to pay for your education and get you where you are. You are wasting their money if you aren't going to give all your effort into your work. You are also taking away the opportunity of someone else who tried very hard to get to the place your at. Although the outcome of cheating is different for high school students then college students I think the punishment should be the same because cheating is cheating and there's no way of getting around it.