Academic Honesty

Academic integrity in school’s today is a very real issue. I know that a lot of students in school cheat and get away with it. This is true because it honestly is very easy to do. I remember in high school, if someone needed to do some homework they would ask around to people who had done it and ask if they copy – and they would get it done. The teacher would have no clue that the student had done this. This would happen a lot and still does, if not more in college. People have their own dorm rooms and live right down the hall from each other. This just makes it that much easier to cheat. Though some kids do get caught, the punishment rate is not high enough to frighten students into not doing it. Plagiarism can be discussed on all sorts of levels. In English class this can be argued to be an issue as well. This is because many students don't use the proper MLA formatting techniques needed to properly cite your sources. If students would truly recognize and respect these "writing laws", there would be no problems on this issue. Mainly a reason why students cheat and are dishonest about it is through laziness. Our society has changed drastically into one which relies on computers and machines to do most of their work for them. Also, kids are preoccupied with everything they see. Whether it be video games or even drugs, kids today are much lazier than a long time ago. I think that teachers should monitor more carefully and make harsher consequences regarding this issue.