For many years high school administrations have preached about the importance of academic integrity and doing one's own work for classes. In recent years, the rise of a popular messaging application, GroupMe, has changed the whole structure of that established plan.This app has given students the opportunity to receive work along with aid from their peers at any time throughout the day.

Although the app is commonly seen as another form of cheating, students generally do not use it for sharing test and quiz answers. Common conversations that one would find going on between students would include classwork help, homework help, and class reminders. These pieces of important information are often seen as necessities in a student’s day-to-day life.

Not only would you find those particular items in the GroupMe for a class, if there were to be a big assignment, it would most likely be divided between the students on GroupMe. With the copious amount of work assigned by teachers, there aren't enough hours in a day to get all of the work done and somehow manage all the other activities students have going on.

Not only does this help the students' grades, it helps the students with the important life lesson of collaborative work, like learning how to ask for help and working together with peers. GroupMe promotes this concept of collaboration between students.

GroupMe, although it has a great importance in education, is a taboo topic in schools, and it shouldn’t be. If an application is able to make such a positive impact in a student's life, it should be seen as an aid in education, rather than as something negative.