One major cause of cheating is the pressure that parents and schools put on students to do well. This creates a kind of “three-step program” towards cheating. All of a student’s life, parents have told him or her that to get into college and to get a good job, he or she must take hard classes because colleges like to see that. This increases the workload of a student, giving him or her less free time. Then comes the killer: step two. There comes a point in just about every student’s life when a realization occurs. This realization, although viewed by some as a common misconception, is that seventy percent of what you learn in school is not relevant to real life in any way. This is a very discouraging thing. It defeats the purpose of learning; it defeats the purpose of school. So what does a normal student do now? Parents still want to see good grades, and colleges won’t look at you without them. Does one keep working hard on things that won’t matter in a month? Sadly, the answer is no. The student cheats to get the grade, and after doing it once the student falls into a cycle that causes him or her to cheat forevermore.