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Cheating and punitive action

It is sad to have students cheating. For me, it is harder to detect cheating. I know that to have the justice served and to create an environment with equal opportunities there should be no cheating. Those who cheat abuse the fairness of the course. However, I still have difficulty with charging the cheaters. I have this feeling that there is always an excuse, not necessarily an accepted one, behind every cheating. In the mean time, I view most of the unacceptable excuses as legitimate. Depression, just feeling bad, procrastination, love, etc. are among such excuses. I think, the education system and the honor code ignore such circumstances in most of the cases.
It is a very difficult question that how much the punitive actions are proportionate with different instances of cheating. The general rule is that a single instance of dishonorable conduct, no matter how big or small it is, should be treated with the highest punishment, which is a F. Though is this really serve the justice? I am not sure. Just think how the society would become if we would have executed every criminal regardless of the crime.

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nargess:

Yes, there are always some circumstances and excuses that leads one to cheat, but as you mentioned they are usually not all acceptable. Life is full of problems and challenges and it gets even more complicated after college. Part of the educational system is to put students in demanding and high pressure situations to teach them how to deal with those situations despite everything else that is going on in their lives (financial problems, emotional problems, etc.). A good education prepares students for the real life. Otherwise, as I learned in a course in education if you give any student as much time they need to complete an assignment or prepare for a test, or if you take into account all their circumstances and problems and accommodate for them, everyone can get an A+. Part of the education system in America teaches students how to prioritize and compromise one task for the other, and how to multi-task. For example, they learn that it is okay, even wonderful, to pass or make it through a course with a C without cheating, when one semester they had to work overtime to help their family with a financial crisis. Of course still professors would allow students to have a make-up exam or extensions for real emergencies. Students can also learn to communicate their issues and ask for such extensions and help instead of cheating. Later in their lives, these situations will translate to cases where a husband has a demanding job with a sick wife in hospital and medical bills coming, while he needs to take care of his kid. He cannot miss the work deadlines and risk losing his job because he loses the health insurance and his only source of income. Then, would rubbing the bank or killing the wife be a solution? All crimes need to be identified and fined, whether execution is the right punishment or not is another topic. At the college level, the punishment is simply failing a test or getting a zero on an assignment. I think that is proportional and fair enough. Actually, university of Maryland makes a distinction: they give a student an XF for dishonory conduct in a class. It means it is worse than F: an F you get because you failed the course yourself, an XF means you cheated. An F can be erased from your transcript if you repeat the course. An XF will never go away and ruins your career. This means they prefer you get an F if you know nothing, your second chance will be to repeat the course, but they do not accept dishonest conduct. I think that sends a strong message and is fair enough.

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