Have you ever had to cheat to get a good grade on the test that you did not study for?  Ever find cheating as an alternative for doing your work? 

Such an act could bring your image to your friends down, create a bad reputation, damage trust, be unfair to yourself and to teachers, and ruin your chances for passing the class. 

If you have cheated, you are being dishonest academically. You are stealing from a person who studied for the exam or who did the work. You don’t deserve that grade. If you are lazy and don’t want to study, you deserve what you get.

You don’t want to go to summer school, so why cheat on a test that you don’t need a great grade on to pass the class? Or you could fail and have to go to summer school? That is one repercussion that you would face if you were caught cheating. You could also get a zero on an assignment and be referred to the principal. 

When you are sent to the principal for cheating, the result could be ISS or OSS, and/or lose credit. Instead, you can accept the one bad grade you earned and just study to get a better grade on the next unit of assignments and test. 

Likewise, college professors will not put up with cheating. Students who are caught cheating at the University of Arkansas can fail the class, get suspended, or even expelled.

When you cheat once, it does not stop there. You may cheat one time and then be tempted to cheat again. It could become a perpetual problem in your life that becomes easier each time you cheat. This bad habit will travel with you to college, where the problem potentially could ruin your life. 

When you cheat, you are cheating yourself. You don’t learn anything when you cheat on papers. You only know the answers because that is what you wrote down. You are not retaining any of the information. All you are doing is making the next step in the learning process harder for yourself. You are being unfair to yourself and an insult to your teacher.

Stress can come from anything happening in your life. A loss of a loved one, family problems, pure laziness, and the leading case of cheating stress. Stress can be that you need a higher grade, you did not study for the exam, or that you need to pass the class.

Cheating can disrupt a person’s morals and integrity. Whether it be a teacher, yourself, or another student, don’t lose sight of your morals. Hold true to your values. If you cheat, you also don’t value your work. 

With finals coming up, don’t jeopardize yourself or your classmates. Don’t risk cheating yourself and others around you.