Name: constanza Quinteros
Title: Cheating but everybody's doing it.
Who has not cheated at least once? But now cheating has become an epidemic. Experts say that cheating is hardly an isolated act. Academic cheating has become an epidemic in America's high schools and colleges.
According to a survey 70 percent of students at 60 colleges admited to have cheated. But cheating is not new what is new and alerming is the fact that it has widespread and that thr majority of students are bold about it. They say that they will do whatever they have to do get ahead.
Josephson Anderson founder of the Josephson institute of ethics says that there are two major factors behind the erosion of ethics. First advances in technology,that have made cheating easier. And a bigger factor is the bad behaviour across society.
People feel pressure to succed, their motto is "if you want to get a better grade, you are going to cheat to get it". Because that is what you will do in real life, if you want to get a better job.
This might be true in a great majority but it isn't so. "Succes at any cost" is not what education is aimed to.
Not only the education system is failling but also parents. In many cases the lack of integrity children show is a reflection of parents behaviour. Parents show no concern about their children cheating at school. As a consecuense they keep on doing it.
Where are the rules, where is the respect and the moral of our future?
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