While it is important to get good grades, cheating is not the right way to do it. Students who cheat harm their future in postsecondary education and careers. Cheating causes the student to lose their critical thinking skills, their honesty, their image and integrity, their self-confidence, their respect and their reputation. Without critical thinking, a student will have difficulty making clear and reasonable judgments. In order to advance and expand their studies, a student must first clearly understand the basic concepts of a subject. If a student cheats during basic lessons, they are setting themselves up to cheat in the future because they will not understand higher level work when the basics are not there. Although cheating is not acceptable, once the cheating process begins, it is difficult to exterminate it. Students find it easier to cheat as they continue to do it and become more and more dishonest in life. Cheating ruins a student's integrity, self-image, self-confidence and respect. When applying for a job and the future employer sees that the student received good grades in school, the student will have difficulty exploiting this potential because he will not be able to solve problems, come up with logical ideas, or manage the