The movie Cheaters occurs in the fall of 1994, when a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High School is placed in charge of seven students for an academic decathlon team. After many hours of extra-curricular work, the students barley get the scores needed to advance to the regional meet, which has been won by rival, preppy, Whitney Young High School for 9 years in a row. The team from Steinmetz decided to try and break the stereotype that underprivileged students are dumber than rich ones. The only way for them to accomplish this was to steal a copy of the test that was going to be administered in the competition and use it to cheat. With the help of the test, Steinmetz blows away the competition and wins the regional event. Their glory does not last for long because a jealous member of the team, who did not get to compete in the competition, turned in the students who cheated. After an investigation, the students" cover was blown and they were stripped of their medals. .
In the movie, the team from Steinmetz was disadvantaged, while the team from Whitney Young had unfair advantages. This caused me to want the team from Steinmetz to get away with their cheating and be allowed to bask in their glory. Cheating, however, is immoral and the cheaters deserved to be punished despite my sympathy for them as the underdogs. As much as I would like to say that the team from Steinmetz was justified in their actions, they were not. On the other hand, the advantages given to the team from Whitney Young were also immoral. The fact that they were not punished for their "advantages" and the fact that, because they were rich, there were never any "random" number checks on their tests is just as, if not more immoral than what the team from Steinmetz did. Both teams acted unethically and neither team's actions are any more acceptable than the other's. .
I view cheating as the easy way out. ... Cheaters are only digging themselves a bigger hole each and every time that they choose to cheat. ... To me, cheating makes no sense at all. ... If someone is going to cheat, they often need someone to cheat off of. ... Cheaters never win. ...
Cheating effects everyone in some way. Cheating occurs everyday, in every school. ... Cheating effects me because when I study, someone else may do better than me because they cheated. ... Cheating widely effects others also. ... And just don"t let them cheat. ...
Cheating There are many problems in the world everywhere we go. ... A very common place where cheating happens is in the home. Cheating takes place in many areas of a family. ... Frequently cheating takes place among siblings. ... There is a wide range of cheating in schools. ...
Cheater Essay #1 The movie Cheaters was based on a true story about seven high school students and their professor Dr. ... Gerard Plecki forced his students to cheat in order to win. ... When the Decathlon team was exposed to television and radio for cheating, the question that was on everybody's mind was did the Decathlon cheated? ... Cheating is a bad thing, but honestly I have never met a person that has not cheated. ... I think that cheaters do prosper. ...
Rules are Out (My opinion and beliefs about cheating) I feel that cheating is an unethical and immoral act but still it is not one that is cracked down upon frequently and stopped. If someone decides to cheat on anything, it shows that they would stoop as low as they can go to succeed. ... Teachers, like the one mentioned in the article, should not have to go through a hard and long process just to prove that a student has cheated. ... If students are cheating it is because of the current education system which places too much emphasis on the outcome instead of the process. ...
As far as I can remember, the first time I experienced cheating was in my tenth grade history class. This seems like a rather long time to go in school without experiencing any cheating, but the work we were given before this point wasn't very challenging, so there never was a reason to cheat. ... The first time I experienced cheating was during finals week in the tenth grade. ... I then started pacing myself, reading every question and the possible answers to assure that I wouldn't finish the test in ten minutes and make it obvious that there was cheating taking place. ... I didn&...
Cheating, when observed by an adult, greatly influence a college's perception of the cheater. For example, A College Board's decision on a cheater's application will be significantly swayed if the cheating incident is placed on a student's record. Likewise, a cheater will be under constant observation by their professors, who know they have previously cheated, so that they will not cheat again. ... In addition, a cheater will become less popular if seen cheating by a peer because cheating is not "cool". ... Resorting to cheating regularly, a cheater will greatly reduce ones...
There's no doubt that many students cheat. ... Students cheat from time to time, because to them this isn't a big deal. ... A recent study of a survey at Bucks show cheating is wide spread."... The level of serious cheating on written assignments is 1/4 to 1/3 lower. On campuses without honor codes, 1/5 to 1/4 of students acknowledge chronic test cheating (admitting to three or more incidents of serious test cheating). ...
What makes people cheat? How does cheating affect your mate? ... Cheating can either end or greatly damage a relationship depending upon the reaction of the person being cheated on. ... People cheat as a means of pay back or revenge. ... A person may cheat because they are confused. ...
