I will never forget my first experience with "academic dishonesty." It was my junior year of high school and my chemistry teacher was not too adequate, to say the least. He gave his lectures in inhuman speeds and still expected us to understand every pearl of wisdom that came out of his mouth! God forbid we ever asked him a question to clarify the topic he was lecturing about. "Weren't you paying attention?" was the only answer he would give to every question we would ask. The day of our first exam arrived and nobody in the class was really prepared to take it. How could we be with the way he taught that class? But one of the students was prepared in another way. He had made up a 'cheat sheet', which contained the answer to every potential question that would be on the exam. Before the teacher entered the classroom, the cheat sheet was passed around the class for all of us to copy. When the teacher finally came in and passed out the exam, we all proceeded to use our cheat she!
             ets to answer the multiple-choice exam with tremendous ease, including me. I definitely knew cheating was wrong, but the whole time I was doing this, it never occurred to me that I was really cheating. It only seemed to be the most simple and logical solution to avoid a potential "F" on my spotless record. Even looking back now, I do not regret my choice of action and I am almost certain that most students in a similar predicament would do the same thing. Why would anyone cheat when we all know that it is wrong? What's the problem here? And what can we do to stop it?
             In order to fix this problem, we need to answer a few questions first. For one, we need to know who is doing this. Next, we need to know why it is being done. Then, we need to know how they are doing this. Finally, we can come up with some potential solutions to this growing problem in our schools.
             Who? To answer our first question of "Who cheats?" we can turn to many studies and report...