Psst... What's the answer to number four? High school students hear things such as this all too much. Cheating seems to be a natural function for most high school students. It is as natural as eating lunch or going to sleep at night. But why do students cheat? Adults may blame laziness, while the students may blame hard classes. The truth, however, is a little of both. There is an intricate chain that causes cheating, spawning from both the pressures of school and the pressures of being a kid.
             One major cause of cheating is the pressure that parents and schools put on students to do well. This creates a kind of "three-step program" towards cheating. All of a student's life, parents have told him or her that to get into college and to get a good job, he or she must take hard classes because colleges like to see that. This increases the workload of a student, giving him or her less free time. Then comes the killer: step two. There comes a point in just about every student's life when a realization occurs. This realization, although viewed by some as a common misconception, is that seventy percent of what you learn in school is not relevant to real life in any way. This is a very discouraging thing. It defeats the purpose of learning; it defeats the purpose of school. So what does a normal student do now? Parents still want to see good grades, and colleges won't look at you without them. Does one keep working hard on things that won't matter in a month? Sadly, the answer is no. The student cheats to get the grade, and after doing it once the student falls into a cycle that causes him or her to cheat forevermore.
             Cheating is easy to do, and there is a good reason for this. Take a look at the typical high school class. There is one teacher watching over thirty students. That one teacher cannot possible watch every student at all times. This simple fact causes the newly found cheating skills o
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