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Cheating is a Crime

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A tiresome school night, you take a seat at your desk and lay out the work like your teachers expect you to do. You sit and work as the clock ticks by. As soon as you have completed all the dreary homework, you take one last look at your organizer to make sure that you never overlooked any assignments. You take a look at the clock only to realize it is midnight. It comes to your attention that you had a biology test the next day during first period. You go and prepare a small note card with all the right information needed to pass, with the hopes of finding a way to cheat off of the note card. In today’s educational system it has become very common for students to cheat their way through school. High Schools have an honor code and other rules in place in order to prevent students from cheating, although it is still very common to cheat. Whenever a student is caught in the unethical crime of cheating, he or she will state that the only way to survive in today’s competitive society is to “cut corners”. The act of cheating is rarely penalized. Others believe that cheating is unethical and will only backfire in the long run. In my opinion schools should have no tolerance to students who cheat and here are three reasons why.
Cheating is an unethical way of getting by in life and cheating is a crime. It is a way to elude the real trials of life. If a student develops the bad habit of cheating, then it will come back to bite them in the future. Students should not be given the

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