School is a great place for students to go and get an education, but it has its flaws. Like cheating, cheating occurs throughout the United States, at all stages of school, from elementary to middle school. As Abc News says in its article, there is a cheating crisis in American schools. The reason why students are educated is so that they lead a successful life, containing good work, wealth and happiness. If students don't get good grades, they won't get any of this. So there is immense pressure to succeed in school. During a six-month investigation, Primetime visited numerous schools across the United States to see how much students cheat and why. They found that most students did it and that they did it to keep up. Joe is a student at a major university in the Northeast and admits to cheating regularly. Like all the students who spoke to Primetime, he wanted his identity obscured. According to Joe, he's just doing what the rest of the world does. “The real world is terrible,” he told the interviewer. "People will take other people's material and pass it on as their own. I'm already desensitized to it. I'll cheat my way out of it" (http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132376). At school, cheating has become habitual. Personally, the second I walk into my first class, at least 3 students ask me for homework so they can copy it. It’s amazing that students don’t even feel like it’s wrong anymore. That's exactly what everyone does, so they do it. Since some classes are graded on a curve, students feel more pressure to cheat, so they follow the cheaters, as one anonymous student said: "There are other people who get better grades than me and them. I cheat. Why won't I cheat? It's almost stupid if you don't do it" (htt... middle of article... people agree that most students cheat at some point. 86% of high school students agreed ( http://www.stanford.edu/class/engr110/cheating.html) If you think that only bad students who fail cheat, you are wrong According to the 1998 Who's Who survey of American high school students, 80%. of the nation's top students cheated to get to the top of their class. More than half of the students surveyed said they didn't think cheating was a problem and most didn't get caught (http:/). /www.stanford.edu/class/engr110/). Cheating has become a growing problem. Schools must suppress it. This will only get worse if penalties are increased and teachers seek out cheating more. This is an unfair, shameful and unethical thing to do. This must be remedied. The simple solution can go a long way..