This one question had been bothering me for years, yet I do not want to talk as if I were so holy and perfect. If you think I am being proud, sorry for the misunderstanding.
My question is: How should we respond when a student cheats in exam?
Situation: A student cheats and gets high marks in exam.
Are we supposed to report it to a teacher?
Situation: A student cheats and the teacher finds out about it, he gets punished.
Are we supposed to rejoice?
It is a dilemma. I am indirectly helping the cheater by remaining silent about what I witnessed, in a police case I would be considered as guilty as the person who commits the crime if I cover it up. If I expose the cheater I might be considered as not giving him a chance to change.
Justice versus Mercy. Both are characteristics of God.
We are told to love justice, so it means bringing a cheater's actions to light?
Yet we are also told to show mercy, so it means letting the cheater go?
I believe with all my heart that love is the perfect solution because love is perfect.
Love the sinner but hate the sin. How? By caring for students who cheat? Talking them out?
Everybody deserves a chance because Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. But to what extent do we keep quiet about their habit of cheating? How do we warn them not to cheat by remaining our humility simultaneously? How do we keep them from thinking that we are pretending to be holy?
With all that being said, I believe it is not our right to condemn students who cheat. Only the One who has no sin can and will judge man.
How to handle cheating? May God be the solution.
I do my part by abstaining from it as well as helping friends in subjects I understand.
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