Despite all the myriad changes in our world since people started
attending schools, some things never change. One of those
things, unfortunately, is cheating. I suppose that as long we as
humans have to accomplish things, there will be those who will
try to find the easy way out for a variety of reasons. Perhaps
it is to avoid effort, to avoid frustration, or perhaps it is to
compensate for a lack of preparation. In any case, students have
cheated in the past and still continue to cheat today. Why?
Perhaps something called the “fraud triangle” can help to
explain why it happens. The problem is what can we do to stop
it? What I see as the most dangerous aspect of cheating is that
more and more students are participating in this activity. While
students the age of mine, 11-12 year olds, will tell you they
know that it is wrong, they do it anyway. What concerns me is
that more and more, cheating seems to be becoming an acceptable
activity, despite the fact that it is considered to be wrong. Is
this a case of one