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Persuasive Essay On Cheating

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I learned from experience that you should never cheat on a test. If you get caught, the consequences are not always the best and it can cause great embarrassment if you are considered a “good, well-behaved student” by your peers and teachers. When you put your best foot forward and try to do the work without just copying the answers down to cheat off of, you will actually learn something. You would not need to rely on the cheat sheet you made or wanted to make. If you do cheat and get caught, take it as a lesson learned. It is not the best experience ever had and it may just cause you to be disappointed in yourself. One day I was in my sixth grade Language Arts class. I believe for that week, on purple hall, which is where my team …show more content…

She looked at me and said, “I will email your mom about this.” By that point I was majorly embarrassed and thinking about what my mom would say and do. That was my first period class and I had to deal with my next four classes before I could go home. By the time third period rolled around, people had already heard about someone getting caught cheating on the etymology quiz in LA. I heard from people that Mrs. Hambrey was telling the students not to try and cheat because someone in her first period already got caught cheating on the quiz. It was finally the end of the day and it was time to go home. I decided not to tell my mom because of the humiliation that it would bring me and because I and I didn’t want to get in trouble. Thinking back to that day, telling my mom that I cheated on a quiz probably would’ve been the best choice. Friday afternoon and Saturday had gone by and Mrs. Hambrey had still not sent the email I honestly thought that she had forgotten about Friday morning. When I came back home from church on Sunday, my mom called me upstairs to her room when I entered the house. Immediately I got a sense of fear and felt nervous. When I got there she said, “What happened on Friday?” My heart dropped right then and there. I decided to try and play it cool by saying, “ I don’t know.” Long story short, Mrs. Hambrey had emailed my mom that I was caught cheating on her quiz the same

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