Argumentative Essay: Morality Within Public Schools

Morality Within Schools There has been a lot of controversy on what the school can, and cannot, control, yet there still seems to be a problem all over the states. High School is very stressful with curriculums that colleges have used in the past, and students are trying to fight their way around the system. They are using resources from the internet to pass them through the class. High school can be a very stressful time for students, and some of them have negative things going on in their lives. I would hope that students attending W-SR would have enough integrity to know that cheating and or plagiarism is not the answer. I also hoped that the W-SR high school had integrity, but I’m not quite so sure about that anymore.
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Many students struggle to concentrate, and those who embrace their very short time in high school are always busy. There are so many different activities to get involved with in high school, like sports, drama, arts, musics, and more. If one student were to be involved in just two of those, try to imagine how busy they might be with homework on top of that. Stress is the second leading cause of suicide in teens. Would you rather have teenagers committing suicide, or would you rather them cheat, because I’m pretty sure that I know what I would choose. If you simply google the words “highschool makes me” and look at the top four outcomes, I think you will be pretty disappointed. The results are “cry”, “want to die”, “depressed”, and “stressed”, and I have seen people buzzing about this all over the internet. I know that cheating should be no way to solve the problem, but you have to choose the lesser of the two evils. I understand that some students can just be lazy and decide not to do their work because they want to do other things instead. Most parents want their child to succeed in life, so that is why they would defend their child if they got in trouble for cheating or plagiarism. I think that if high schools made the workload a little less, then that would cause the stress levels to go down, and from then on it would just be the trickle down effect. This would not cause the cheating to …show more content…
You may, or may not, know about a situation that has recently been stirred up at the Waverly - Shell Rock High School. A student has made some pretty poor decisions, to say the least, and has been properly charged 5 times. These chargers involve 6 total people, whose names I will not mention for the sake of their well being. With that said, I, and my family, do not think that the school is going about this in the right way. They have adapted to the problem on a small scale, but they do have the option to make drastic changes until this goes through court. The law cannot and will not get involved at school, since W-SR has their own policies, they expect the school to take action. It states in our own school policy, that if a student is charged with only three, then they have the option to expel them. He is still waltzing around the school with all 5 of the victims near by every single day. I know that my parents are outraged by this, and I would assume that the others are also. We have to watch him be around his friends everyday and walk around like absolutely nothing has happened. We are being harassed by both him and his friends almost everyday, and I feel like we have all just gotten used to it. Christine Pelton is somebody who I now look up to, because she had the integrity to make the right choice and give the students what they deserved. W-SR lacks in integrity, and