I feel that it was a fair punishment and a fair outcome. It was wrong of P.S. to cheat but he didn't cheat for a wrong reason he cheated so as not to disappoint his father not to ace the test or seem smart. He also realized that he made a mistake and wanted to correct that mistake but chose not to which i do feel was wrong. However he was reprimanded for his cheating by being turned in by his trusted "in class" friend Jumbo. The moral of the story is not that cheating is wrong even though it is that if sometimes you do the wrong thing for a good reason that you can be forgiven and things will all turnout to go the way they need to turn out. Like in this story P.S. was not afraid of getting a bad grade or even failing he was afraid that if he did one of these two things that he would disappoint his father. And in not wanting to disappoint his father i feel that he did something even more regrettable in the long run but the more regrettable thing is what fix his relationship with his father "not like he had a relationship with his father to begin with" but cheating is what formed a relationship with his father other than the prior "sir, son" relationship that they had. So the cheating was wrong, broke a family tradition, and formed a relationship that soled the problem.