In her essay “The Price of Silence” Laura recalls remarkable experience in her 10th grade when she did not report her friend, Jeff, cheating in the chemistry final test. Laura was aware of the incident, but she didn’t recognize the impact of cheating in her young age. Therefore, she fell in line with the crowd and considered the cheating was not “a big deal” (77). High-school students should speak up to report cheating because of its negative impacts and consequences in the future.
Student must consider cheating is a serious offensive rather than a common thing. Most students consider cheating is justified and nothing to do with it, and they seem not to care about it. Instead, they ignore cheating or even support it to deal with instructor. …show more content…
Friendship is one of the best thing of our life, and a good friend is someone who help one another to overcome obstacles and achieve goals together. Plus, a good friend will not help their friend to do bad things, more specifically not report a friend cheating in the test. By not speaking up to report, they unintentionally invade their friends or even contribute to close the friendship. Laura points out the incident that she had with her best friend Jeff when she did not report him cheating “Interestingly, Jeff and I are no longer very close. Whenever I see him, I have the same reaction Henry Louis Gates Jr. had when he met Mr. Wilson after he had insulted his father: ‘I never gain look[him] in the eye’ ”(78). A good friendship come from sincere, sympathetic, and willing to encourage and help one another to achieve the goals. By reporting a friend cheating will not lose the friendship, it helps them to respect the value of hard-working, and effort rather than …show more content…
As students use cheating as a tool to deal with student and not study for knowledge, they lose the knowledge that cannot be bought by money, and it will take their time, efforts, and hard-working instead. In addition, cheating can be considered less serious problem by teachers from lower levels, such as: secondary, high-school because high-school students are still young to get an extreme penalty. However, cheating in high levels, college, or university is very serious offensive, and students will be forced to stop going to school or even time in jail. Laura wrote in her essay “The issues that were simple in high school now seem complex- especially in light of honor code that I follow in college” (77). The consequence of cheating is always predicted by students. They can retake the course again if they are found cheating in high-school, but the consequence for cheating in higher may even bigger than just retake the
Student must consider cheating is a serious offensive rather than a common thing. Most students consider cheating is justified and nothing to do with it, and they seem not to care about it. Instead, they ignore cheating or even support it to deal with instructor. …show more content…
Friendship is one of the best thing of our life, and a good friend is someone who help one another to overcome obstacles and achieve goals together. Plus, a good friend will not help their friend to do bad things, more specifically not report a friend cheating in the test. By not speaking up to report, they unintentionally invade their friends or even contribute to close the friendship. Laura points out the incident that she had with her best friend Jeff when she did not report him cheating “Interestingly, Jeff and I are no longer very close. Whenever I see him, I have the same reaction Henry Louis Gates Jr. had when he met Mr. Wilson after he had insulted his father: ‘I never gain look[him] in the eye’ ”(78). A good friendship come from sincere, sympathetic, and willing to encourage and help one another to achieve the goals. By reporting a friend cheating will not lose the friendship, it helps them to respect the value of hard-working, and effort rather than …show more content…
As students use cheating as a tool to deal with student and not study for knowledge, they lose the knowledge that cannot be bought by money, and it will take their time, efforts, and hard-working instead. In addition, cheating can be considered less serious problem by teachers from lower levels, such as: secondary, high-school because high-school students are still young to get an extreme penalty. However, cheating in high levels, college, or university is very serious offensive, and students will be forced to stop going to school or even time in jail. Laura wrote in her essay “The issues that were simple in high school now seem complex- especially in light of honor code that I follow in college” (77). The consequence of cheating is always predicted by students. They can retake the course again if they are found cheating in high-school, but the consequence for cheating in higher may even bigger than just retake the