"Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception"

In the article "Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception" by Richard Pérez-Pena large scale cheating has been uncovered in the nation's most competitive schools. Majority of students violate standards of academics integrity to some degree.
  Cheating has become easier and more widely tolerated. Donald L. McCabe a professor at the Rutgers University Business School, and a leading researcher on cheating states" I don’t think there's any question that students have become more competitive, under more pressure, and as a result, tend to excuse more from themselves and other students, and that's allowed by the adults around them".
  "Students are surprisingly unclear about plagiarism and cheating" said Mr.Wasieleski, an associate professor of management. A recent study by Jeffrey A.Roberts and David M.Wasieleski at Duquesne University found that the college students who used more online tools for work in class where more likely to copy the work of other students. The Internet has changed attitudes, as a world of instant downloading, searching, copy and pasting has loosened some ideas of ownership and authoring.

I don't think students cheat because their classmates and teachers let them. I think they cheat because they think that it will get them to pass and moved on in life. Teachers, parents, and students cannot hold child/and or classmates hand through life, so I think they allow them to cheat so they can learn a lesson that cheating only hurts yourself.
   When I’m in school I may sometimes let my classmates copy off of my papers for homework or for classwork. But in all reality I do it because I know that if we were to have a test on anything that we had to do for homework or classwork that they will soon to begin that copy my work is hurting their grades, not mine. Now I can say that letting them copy off of my work may also be a bad thing. I say this because; like I said before if we were to have a test on work they would actually depend on me giving them the answer because I let them do it when we are doing ordinary class work. But one question no one will ever be able to answer is why students cheat. I do want to know why is it that when students realize that cheating will not help them in life, why do they still continue to do it?
  This article really makes me wonder why most students in school including the top schools cheat. It doesn’t help you get anywhere, and when your asked questions about something you know you cheated on all you can really do is think to yourself, What was on his/her paper again? Cheating has its good and wrong doing. But it mainly has wrong doing.