Copy Off Of Each Other's Homework

Reasons Why Students Shouldn’t
Copy Off of Each Other’s Homework
Mickayla Bowling

There are many reasons why sharing homework among students is detrimental to all parties involved. There are is a multitude of reasons that are fairly obvious why letting another student copy off of another student’s homework is a bad idea. Letting a student copy off of another student’s homework not only has a negative effect on the student who copied the homework and the student who let the other student copy off of their homework , but it also can affect other students in my class and the teacher of that class. It is completely irresponsible for a student to a let another student copy off their homework, and it is obvious there are many different reasons …show more content…
It seems like the students are the only people affected by copying homework, but this is simply not the case. It is the teacher’s job to educate their students. If a student seems to be doing well and understanding a subject because they are copying homework from another student. This doesn’t seem like a big deal at first, one would think it would just be a negative consequence for the student who copied another student’s homework, but while that is true it also hurts the teacher. The teacher isn’t going to spend an excessive amount of time on a subject it appears all of the students, or at least a majority of the students are understanding the subject material. This means that the teacher is going to think they are accomplishing their jobs so the students are going to do well on the end of year tests. The end of year tests affect the teachers in a very real way. The end of year test can even affect how much the teacher gets paid and other things that affect the teacher’s life. It also takes a teacher's valuable time away from them. If students are caught copying each other’s homework the teacher has to take time to reprehend them. The teachers want to make sure their students are understanding what they are being taught and when students copy each other’s homework this ability is taken away from them unjustly. People tend to think that decisions that can negatively affect them can …show more content…
As a student who has their homework done, the student could encourage the student to do their own homework the next time and offer to hold the other person accountable to getting their homework done so there is motivation for the student who didn’t do their homework to have their homework done on time. The student who gets their homework done on time could also offer to help the student who didn’t get their homework done on time build a schedule that sets up a specific time for studying and doing homework in their own time so the student who doesn’t have their homework done can have a specific time previously allotted to do their own homework. If either of those previous options are offered to the student who doesn’t get their homework done on time the student would probably feel less overwhelmed by their homework and do their homework on time. If the student who doesn’t have their homework on time doesn’t feel overwhelmed by their homework they are going to be more likely to do their own homework so there is not going to even be a need for the student who doesn’t have their homework done to copy off of the student who has their homework done in the first place. The student who doesn’t have their homework done on time might not be doing their homework during the time allotted for them to complete their homework