Student Cheating & Moral Dilemma
| Lack of character education and moral science in schools is manifesting its effects on the students in various ways -- drug abuse, alcohol abuse, school violence and even student cheating. The issue of cheating in academics has become uncontrollably common in schools and is creating a moral dilemma. |
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Mounting parental pressure and growing parental expectations to excel in academics is the main triggering factor. Laziness on the part of students and insufficient academic preparation is another factor which forces students to resort to cheating during examinations. Cheating breaks the trust factor and tends to create gaps and cracks in the communities -- students are turned against students -- because by cheating, one tries to get ahead of others by hurting them and inflicting pain to the entire class, especially those students that have studied and worked hard.
Parents and teachers can play an important role in limiting cheating and plagiarism. They must try and inculcate positive ethical values in the child and hold him/her accountable for any sort of unethical behavior or action. They must themselves set examples of good ethical values and be a positive ethical influence to the child. They must both strictly discourage cheating during examinations.
Parents need to reassure their children that although they expect good grades and marks from them, they do not want them to cheat in order to achieve high grades. Parents must also appreciate the grades obtained by their children through pure hard work (instead of cheating in the exam) and show that they value those grades much more than the high grades that the child could have obtained if he/she had cheated in the exam. This will encourage the kids to stick to their ethics and morals and not resort to any kind of unfair practices during tests.
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