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rationalization of cheating. The growth in technology has also been a catalyst in the cheating vice
in academic setups. Moral decadence in our current society has also contributed to the epidemic,
with dishonest ways being glorified. Students compete on who does well in outsmarting the
teaching personnel in cheating. A sense of pride is bestowed upon students who cheat most and
get away unscathed by their peers.
Reasons as to who is to shoulder the blame on the cheating epidemic and why may be
undefined but dire consequences of cheating are well documented. Learners perceived cheating
in exams as a harmless practice to others. But the truth is that through cheating, honest students
are jeopardized. Those who cheat and evade punishment gain good grades and accolades that
deny the honest ones a chance to leap from their hard work. Through cheating, a culture of
suspicions and lack of trust is developed. One will always have a mentality that the next person
is cheating or has cheated at some point in their life. For example, one may fail to trust a doctor’s
intuition when they think that the doctor cheated in their medical exams. The cheating epidemic
depreciates the value of the system of education. Learners are grades-oriented more than they put
emphasis on the process of learning and acquisition of knowledge.
Creation of a cheating culture among learners has adverse effects that may be evident
even at later phases of life for example at a workplace. Whenever the supposedly lesser crimes
like cheating in exams are left unaddressed or unpunished, they serve as an opening to far greater
crimes. It is the responsibility of all bodies involved to work together to tame the cheating vice.
Parents should not assume that it is the education’s system duty to deal with cases of learners
who cheat their way into better grades in exams.
