Survival of the Fittest

An environment where the competition is so intense can sometimes be good and it can sometimes be bad. It can be good because this encourages and pushes the students to do better in their classes. They put much more effort in their work because they want to compete and be better than the other students. They are the type of people who always want to come out on top This type of atmosphere can also be bad because competition can sometimes end up really bad when people take it too far. Some kids can get way too caught up with their competitive side that they tend to block everything else out and focus too much on winning.
    Basically, students cheat as an easy way to get out of doing their own work. If that is not the case, kids will cheat to come out on the top as one of the best. Students usually want to make the grade but they really do not know how. For that reason, they resort to cheating as an alternative to doing their work and stressing about it later on. The consequences of cheating all depends on what kind of school people go to and the types of discipline the school has. Most likely, a student will get an F and they can also be expelled in some cases. Cheating is never worth it. If kids cheat they basically are only cheating themselves. In the long-run, they would not have learned anything because they did not do the work themselves. Yes the student might get ahead in a class because they cheated and if they did not get caught, but then at the same time, they will eventually show that they did not learn that work themselves.
    I think that students who are caught cheating should be punished in whatever way is possible. Kids need to learn that it is not okay to cheat and that for every cheater, there is a consequence. Cheating does not lead to anything good. At the time, it may seem like a good thing to do, but in the end, it will not help anyone at all.