Why Cheating Hurts Students Now and in Their Future

As parents, we talk to our kids about drinking, drugs, sex, and anything else we think we need to in order keep them safe and healthy. But how many of us talk to our kids about cheating? If we aren’t, we should be. Cheating is an epidemic in America’s high schools and colleges. Everyone cheats. Okay, maybe not everyone. But today more students are cheating than not.

Students cheat because of the pressure to succeed. They cheat because they’ve seen it modeled by politicians, athletes, and cor...