It’s a pity the student was given the chance to pass the subject but he cheated. Students nowadays are exposed to so many temptations like playing computer games all day without thinking of their future.

Poor mother, she could not do anything in such a situation.

It is a crime to cheat during the exams. One has to be first be truthful to himself or herself, his parents and to the school. If he is interested in deviant behavior like the one he indulged in there are better places for him to be in and to face the consequences he should when caught there. A school is a place where one is taught to be good and lead a hard working life and enjoy success through studies and then writing exam and passing with flying colors.

If these children are interested in doing all these things other than studying then school is a wrong place for them. They are unfit to be in school. This also show bad parenting. If parents were keeping an eye on their child and taking care of his education needs and checking the status. Then he would not be facing the situation in which he is in today. Cheating is a crime because if one cheats and gets good scores. The others who study and try their best and get less scores than the cheater end up being the losers which is not fair to them.

@Krishna Kumar, Very well said my friend, yes cheating is a crime for if it cannot be stopped by the student himself will get used to cheat and when he becomes professional through cheating, he can never depart from it for he will surely like to do a short cut.The students who keep on cheating will never pass during the board examination. It will be too late for them to regret when they are already in the exam room during the board exam. The parents must always communicate with their sons and daughters to encourage them to do right and they need to inspire their children too.

Cheating is not a crime in the sense that you likely won’t get arrested and put in jail for it. But it is in a sense a crime because of what it can lead to. Consider this. Do you want a surgeon operating on you who cheated on his exams when he or she was in med school? Do you want a police officer who cheated on his exams at the academy serving and protecting you when it’s clear he lacks integrity and honesty?

Legally and technically speaking, while cheating in any school examination may be deem or consider grounds for expulsion under school academic policy it is not a “crime” as this legal term is understood under the Criminal Law.

While it may be true that cheating in any exams is morally wrong or immoral for being dishonest to oneself, to the teacher, to the classmate and to the academic institution or school where one belong to, it can never be consider a crime until and unless there is a law passed by the government declaring the “act of cheating” in any exams to be a crime and providing a corresponding penalty for it.

No act or omission is considered a crime unless there is a law declaring such act or omission to be a crime.

In the actual given situation, there is no law being cited declaring cheating to be a crime.

If cheating is really a crime, then aside from being expelled from the school, the school authorities could have filed a criminal case before the police authorities or the prosecutor’s office against the students involve for the “crime of cheating”, but no such thing happened in this case.

It stand to reason therefore, that cheating in any school examination is merely a violation of the school or academic policy or school manual but not necessarily a crime by itself and in itself.

@Arnold Cruz,very well said, thanks and you are right.