P2 blog post

For my P2, I decided to talk about the topic cheating.  I think that’s a serious issue in schools and I think it would be nice for people to hear about it from an actual students standpoint. The articles I read to help me with this P2 were the ‘Harvard Cheating Scandal: Can an Honor Code Prevent Cheating at Harvard?’ and ‘Cheating in College’.  Ultimately, I know that I personally can’t completely stop cheating in all schools and universities but it’d be nice to be able to make a difference in cutting the cheating back.  I think by being able to help reduce cheating in schools and universities not only will it help benefit the teachers to make sure they are teaching how the students are able to understand but it will also help the students so they can actually learn about something instead of just passing a test and moving on.  A solution to the cheating problem could be making sure there’s an honor code in every school and making sure it’s enforced-and by meaning “enforced” I mean what if every year schools take time,even an hour, to talk about cheating and the effects it has, not just the punishments of getting caught but the long term effects as well. Another idea I have to help reduce the amount of cheating going on in schools, was to let the students know about available resources for them in a subject to get the help they need so they don’t feel like cheating is their last hope.  As a student who got caught cheating on a chemistry test freshman year, looking back at the whole thing, I think the whole situation could’ve been handled a different way and cheating could have been avoided if I had just known of resources to help me instead of me feeling hopeless the night before the test. The stakeholders I’m targeting in this paper are going to be students as well as schools because well, those are the ones being affected the most.  Schools are being affected because if students are cheating, how do they know if the teachers are actually up to date with teaching skills and so on?  Cheating affects students because yes, they end up getting a good grade on the exam or in the class but what happens when they actually need to know what they were supposed to learn in the first place and they can’t; something needs to change so students stop screwing themselves over in the long-run.  In order to make a difference in reducing the amount of cheating that’s happening in schools and universities you have to start with the source of the problem-the students.  They’re the ones thinking that cheating is okay as long as they get that good grade and don’t necessarily think about all the consequences that go along with it. I chose this image to show readers that cheating doesn’t affect only a few students, but a majority of them have cheated at least once.