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Thesis
Academic integrity for the sake of a passing grade can be promoted or discouraged by parents, competitive schools, declining ethical standards, society, and even the punishments that schools use to punish students who are caught cheating; all these can weigh down a student, making cheating an acceptable option to failure.

Topic 1:
Cheating, on tests or homework, is practically an epidemic, starting with a child's first test to an adult's final exams.

Topic 2:
However, technology cannot be held completely to blame, what about the role models, the parents, and society promoting this behavior?

Topic 3:
Technology and parents can contribute to a student cheating, but sometimes the very rules that are supposed to prevent students from dishonest behavior might not be enough.

Topic 4:
However, multiple consequences for the same crime is nothing compared to schools with an adamant policy on academic dishonesty.

Conclusion:
Academic dishonesty is tearing down the caliber of education students across the country are receiving. Pinning the blame on one institution or group isn't very practical considering the amount of sources that said blame can reside in. Succeeding is only rewarding if honesty and integrity are upheld in the process.