Helping

In chapter 8 of the book "Down on the island" by Jim Cooper, he speech about the confusion that may exist between Puerto Rican students about the meaning of "helping". He says that students help each other on tests for your peers to do well and get a good grade, but they didn't realize that help in that way is also considered cheating.

I think helping is fair, but "helping" when you're taking a test, thats another story. It is not fair to the student who sacrificed himself studying to get a good grade. Many young people today are still acting like this, and of course some adults also. When I was in public school this type of "helping" happened all the time. It was such like a normal thing. I disagree with this behavior but I do not blame the students of that time because they didn't saw such a bad thing in "helping". Right now in college it still happens but not as much as high school, and much less in a faculty like natural sciences, where I am, and where everyone are competing with each other. Certainly here some students know their limits and know when and when not to help, because unfortunately this is a department in which you have to take advantage over others in order to progress. And I know that many students know what that means, inclusive some students didnt help others when they can and is not considered cheating.

I think this behavior of many years before has changed a little, specifically for college students that have whose priority is to be the best, and certainly that makes sense but we must sit and think about it and dont be selfishs and overdo it.