Colleen Wenke's Too Much Pressure

That stomach churning feeling of guilt for many, seems to appear as a small price to pay when completing an act of academic dishonesty. Colleen Wenke wrote an essay on cheating eighteen years ago called “Too Much Pressure”. Although, In the past fifty years, students who admit to having cheated has increased fifty to seventy percent(stanford.edu) Today, the number of students who cheat has risen because it is no longer seen as a large infringement on the school system that one should be punished for. Therefore, it is an easier way to receive the grade that one feels will lead them to ultimate success.
Hundreds of programs, videos and websites have been made across the digital world, making cheating look like a task completed regularly instead of an offense.
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ABC news interviewed a business student that came to the conclusion that when it comes to grades, “Nobody looks at how you got it”, what matters is seeing that ‘A’ on the assignment. The ticket to success in life for many students is grades. It is how one makes it to the next step in their academic career. To some, it matters so much that they would risk being academically dishonest and breaking school rules to get to that prestigious college or program.
C One reason for cheating is the result of teachers teaching the curriculum in a fashion that requires students to copy the teacher, a theory developed by a teacher who interviewed an avid cheater.(Lahey, The Atlantic) If the students get into the habit of copying the exact words of the teacher, they will become natural cheaters, subconsciously plagiarizing another’s work. There is a multitude of information that states that cheating has risen and that it has gotten worse. But some believe that the number of students that cheat has actually declined over the