Earn trust - do not be a cheater - Info for students
You forgot about the test you had to study and now you are afraid that you will fail and get into trouble, so you think you will just look on your friend's test and copy the answers. Your teacher catches you doing it and now you are in more trouble.
You and your friends are playing a game and you really want to win, so you cheat. They see you doing it and now they do not want to play with you any more...
No matter how you look at it or what the reasons are, cheating is never smart.
Cheating is when a person misleads, deceives, or acts dishonestly on purpose. For kids, cheating may happen at school, at home, or while playing a sport. If a baseball team is for kids who are 8 or younger, it's cheating for a 9-year-old to play on the team and hit home run after home run.At school, in addition to cheating on a test, a kid might cheat by stealing someone else's idea for a science project or by copying a book report off the Internet and turning it in as if it's his or her original work. Copying someone else's words or work and saying they're yours is a type of cheating called plagiarism.
There are a lot of different ways in which people can cheat and a lot of people get away with it and think it is okay to carry on doing it, but one or other time they usually get caught and other people mostly loose their respect for them and also start mistrusting them and do not want to be involved with them any more, or whenever they say something, everybody is wondering if that person is telling the truth.
Once you have lost the respect and trust of your parents, family or friends, it is very difficult to get it back.
There are many reasons why people will cheat. It can be because they are busy and did not get time to study for a test, it can be because they are lazy and want to take the 'easy way out'. It can be because they are scared they will get into trouble if they cannot do something correctly, so they copy another person.
If you are a child that cheats, you need to ask yourself why you do it. If it is because you are scared you will fail a test, you need to study more or if you do not understand the work, you need to speak to your teacher and ask for help. If you cheat because you do not want to loose at a game, you need to understand that we cannot always win and if you loose but have done your best, it is fine. Next time you will do better again.
Rather loose and try your best, than win because you cheated.
If you can only achieve something in your life because you cheat your way through everything, and even if you get away with it every time, it does not show that you are so good at what you do, it actually shows that you are so weak that you do not want to better yourself, you need to lie and cheat to get somewhere.
A lot of kids who cheat, feel very guilty about it or they are stressed out that they will be caught. Some children do it once and never again, some kids never do it and others do it and gets away with it and carry on doing it again and again.
If you are honest with yourself, would you not rather be the child that faces the consequences of your decisions.
It is not nice to get into trouble, but is it not better to get punished for something you did not do and make sure you do it the next time (like you get in trouble for failing a test and next time you study harder) than being known as the kid who cheats and who nobody trusts?
Cheating will most of the time make you feel bad and you are just putting unnecessary stress on yourself - there are enough other things that you need to deal with in your life, why do you want to add more stress??
If you have ever cheated, or still doing it, it is never too late to stop doing it. You just need to make a decision that you do not want to be a 'cheater'. Decide that you want to accomplish things in your life by working hard and doing your best and be known as a person who others can trust.
There's an old saying that cheaters never win and winners never cheat. This may sound confusing because sometimes it seems like cheaters do win — at least for the moment. But kids who don't cheat are true winners because, when they win, they do it fair and square.
Have a look at a few reasons why cheating is not the right thing to do.
