VanessaMI

Loved by a tree

Love is like a tree

Winds like hands caressing the tree

Branches are like arms

Holding you and loving you

Keeping me safe underneath

My butterfly flew away

My love fluttering

Taking flight above the big sky

Only to you, dear

But where my wings are spread out

You are still in a cocoon

Butterfly

Tree swaying

Cocoon

Arms holding someone

Cheating is clearly a problem because of everybody does it, adults can’t do anything about it, and when people with those morals go into the workforce it will affect their life.

            For instance Michael Josephson states, “That the willingness to cheat has become the norm.” For example I look around a classroom and when the teacher themselves out of understanding the lesson. Saying everyone cheats is a large assumption. It is sad that people who cheat and I know people who don’t. I don’t like how Josephson states everyone does it.

            Generally speaking Josephson says, “That parents, teachers, coaches, and even religious educators have not been able to stem the tide.” It is upsetting how Josephson thinks that parents and teachers can’t stop students of children from cheating. Teachers and coaches just have to enforce the rules and watch their students carefully. Parents just have their kids so their homework in an open area where they walk through. For example my parents have my siblings and I do our work at the kitchen table.

            Also Josephson said that, “so many kids are entering the workforce to become corporate executives, politicians, airplane mechanics and nuclear inspectors with the dispositions and skills of cheaters and thieves.” It is scary to think of students cheating their way through high school and cheating and cutting corners at their job. For example I wouldn’t want to have a cheater fix my plane I am on and then I pay a sacrifice they had done. Everyone depends on someone to be doing their job right so no one gets hurt.

            In conclusion cheating isn’t as big of a problem as Josephson makes it out to be, because not everybody cheats, adults do enforce that students don’t cheat, and we have adults who are in charge and they do catch the cheaters.