One of the main reasons that people stress academic honesty is that there is so much plagiarism in the school system now days. It seems like no one ever even attempts to do their own work. For me plagiarism is taking a whole paper or idea and claiming that it is your own. I think that dishonesty is where the person is so desperate to get a good grade that he/she just copies an others work so that they don't get an F on the assignment. One of the reasons that peope do this sort of thing is that teachers need to not have such a harsh penalty for getting in late assignments and that involves that the teacher has to understand that their class is not the single most important thing in the persons life. Class is important but there are things that trump classwork and teachers need to underestand that. the goal of teaching is to get the student to learn and if that student is learning then the teacher is doing his/her job not if that student is mindlessly regurgitating answeres on a peace of paper. But also know when you have given enough and need to just grade what is done.

I thought that the information that we as a class learned was good but a little unesissary. Studies have shown that kids have desided if they are going to drink by the time they are 14. So that means that potentually in college a freshman that is 20 has been drinking for 5 or 6 years. They have already decided that they are haveing a good time and don't have any intentions of changing their outlook on drinking. And the same is also true for the people that have decided that they are not going to drink. I am one of those people that have never drank anything and i get annoyed really quick when i have to hear constantly about other people drinking and getting into dump situations and know that that willnoever be me so why throw all those scare taktics at someone who isn't going to drink. Talk to the kids under 14 that havn't decided if they are drinking not the people that have already took up positions on the topic.

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