I say go for it, but don't make it too obvious so your teacher can easily find out you didn't actually work.
[B]EDIT:[/B] Although to be honest, I only cheated whenever I seriously didn't understand the question like for chemistry or more advanced math.
Nobody really cares.. everyone does it.
It only matters if YOU care and think its okay. If you go back and check the homework (assuming you get the papers back and they're all correct answers) and study it at home after the fact that you got the grade, then I don't see what the problem is.
If you care about your education, then that should be good enough for you.
just don't get caught.
Absolutely not. The purpose of homework is to help you with your studies. If you cheat on all of your homework for an entire semester, you're only going to screw yourself over in your final exam. You need to know how to do the working out so you know how to get to the final answer.
Also, regarding essays and online submissions in institutions such as universities, such homework is checked against submissions from other students and stuff already on the Internet, and if you're caught plagiarising you are immediately suspended (potentially expelled) from the university.
The purpose of going to school is to learn.
If the only thing you learn is to go look up the answers someone else's come up with, you will be [B]fucked[/B] by the time real life hits and you find yourself even more unprepared than average.
Plus, if you have higher aspirations and want or need to get a degree, any university or college worth having a degree from will expel your ass for plagiarizing. [sp]It's been a while since I got my degree so this may have changed a bit, but I can't see a math or science prof tolerating you just copying answers and labs instead of actually understanding fuckall.[/sp]
Think very carefully on if you want the Internet to do the work for you.
Its a bad habit to get in.
If you go to college a lot of the time homework isn't graded, you generally just get like 2 exams and maybe a couple papers (depending on your course you may have labs or stuff like that). The homework that gets assigned is there to help you practice the material. So if you don't do the homework you generally get fucked on your exams.
I cheat on most if not all of my homework just because it's complete bullshit most of the time. Highschoolers should not be getting assigned word searches or crossword puzzles for grades. I do cheat on most of my homework purely out of laziness, and for the most part, I understand how to do the work for finals and tests. The only subject I struggle in is Math and yes I do cheat in there, only because I found out that it's easier for me to learn by already having the correct answer in the first place.
The point of homework is a review for the stuff done in class, and is kinda pointless imo esp if you didn't even learn anything in the class.
imo in highschool it doesn't matter in the slightest, since highschool is pretty much just to make you teachable for college.
Now cheating in college is a whole different story.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;45635918]Absolutely not. The purpose of homework is to help you with your studies. If you cheat on all of your homework for an entire semester, you're only going to screw yourself over in your final exam. You need to know how to do the working out so you know how to get to the final answer.[/QUOTE]
What if you already know how to do it and just don't want to spend the time working it out?
The day my chemistry teacher told everyone he wasn't going to be grading homework was the day everyone's grades in that class started going up. It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of "eugh I don't want to fucking do this I have way better things I could be doing"
As long as you read your homework, and at least try to understand how the websites you used got the correct answer it sounds fine. But really it's more of a question of if you're willing to put the effort in.
[QUOTE=gk99;45636825]What if you already know how to do it and just don't want to spend the time working it out?
The day my chemistry teacher told everyone he wasn't going to be grading homework was the day everyone's grades in that class started going up. It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of "eugh I don't want to fucking do this I have way better things I could be doing"[/QUOTE]
Yeah if I cheated on university homework I would be booted out of university and the $20,000 debt I've accumulated so far would have been all for nothing (if I simply wrote the answer and didn't do any working out, I'd fail that piece of homework, which is graded, because of not getting enough marks). Even if I was only suspended, the infringement would forever remain on my academic transcript for everyone to see. I work ~32 +/- 6 hours every week and study at 75% of the full-time study load. Someone like you who is probably in high school and probably doesn't have a job doesn't really have an excuse for not doing homework. Plus, even if you did know how to get the answer, practice makes perfect.
I think school should be more focused on teaching you and making sure you learn than grading homework. So when it comes to homework? Sure. Cheat. However, on tests I think it is much worse to cheat. The problem is that when people cheat on tests it is difficult to tell how much they know. Homework isn't a test of what you know, it's review. I'm a bit hypocritical given I paid a guy to do my summer school work, though.
Don't cheat. Ever. It serves no purpose at all.
No, I don't think cheating is a good thing. Collaborating with others, though, is a whole different ballpark.
The more minds the better, in that case. You may actually teach one another a few things.
[QUOTE=Raygen;45637714]Don't cheat. Ever. It serves no purpose at all.[/QUOTE]
Except to accomplish something in a much easier, quicker way.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;45637524]I think school should be more focused on teaching you and making sure you learn than grading homework. So when it comes to homework? Sure. Cheat. However, on tests I think it is much worse to cheat. The problem is that when people cheat on tests it is difficult to tell how much they know. Homework isn't a test of what you know, it's review. I'm a bit hypocritical given I paid a guy to do my summer school work, though.[/QUOTE]
On the other hand, its not a very effective review if you just copied the answers off someone else or had someone else do it.
Ideally, I feel that homework is something that should be gone over in class if time allows it. Particularly in a subject like math where students can very easily get wildly different answers for very simple mistakes. After all, there's no reason to cheat if you're gonna be walked through the homework before handing it in.
I never really cheated homework in high school, but I did skip some, mostly due to it being English homework (which at times gets incredibly pointless, despite some of my mistakes I think I am pretty decent) and being overloaded (which has taken a toll on my math grades often)
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;45638105]Its a great way to get to a point where you can no longer cheat and are way above your real knowledge level, pretty much fucking yourself over.[/QUOTE]
Exactly this. If you have to cheat, make sure it's only for something you can't skip without consequences, and think of it as time off to actually learn what you were supposed to
[QUOTE=xZippy;45637930]Except to accomplish something in a much easier, quicker way.[/QUOTE]
"Accomplish"
Let's face it, there is subjects which you will never need any time again after you finish school and are only learned for the sake of learning. I cheated the fuck out of those ones. In two of our latin papers I managed to figure out the translation text a few days before, because we knew the author and the topic. Internet makes it possible :v:
In highschool? Yes. You don't learn shit in highschool that carries over to college. Work smart, not hard. As long as you are smart you can succeed without having to do the shitty worksheets that you are provided.
That being said, cheating on tests is something I don't support. If you aren't able to pass the tests without doing the homework, you are cheating yourself of your education.
Yeah, I'd say it is, but like, be inclusive with cheating. Some schools even have veritable cheating rings, where a group of students all "share" the answers with each others.
[QUOTE=Raygen;45655313]"Accomplish"[/QUOTE]
Yes.
You said cheating serves no purpose. If I peak over a smart kid's shoulder, copy all his answers and get an A+ without being detected or later found out, then my purposed was fulfilled. The purpose being I passed a test with hardly any effort on my end, and I got away with it.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;45655696]Yeah, I'd say it is, but like, be inclusive with cheating. Some schools even have veritable cheating rings, where a group of students all "share" the answers with each others.[/QUOTE]
Our grade has a facebook page dedicated to answer sharing but everything posted is always accompanied by a crapload of working and discussion that explains it
I don't agree with cheating on a test. But most people just google their homework questions to get it over with.
[QUOTE=Silent Bang;45661356]I don't agree with cheating on a test. But most people just google their homework questions to get it over with.[/QUOTE]
probably not most, many do. Depends on the work for me. A math worksheet that'll take 5-10 minutes if I know the stuff I'll go ahead and do for the valued practice. If it's a word search or a crossword puzzle, hi google.
[QUOTE=Mezzokoko;45655345]Let's face it, there is subjects which you will never need any time again after you finish school and are only learned for the sake of learning. I cheated the fuck out of those ones.[B] In two of our latin papers I managed to figure out the translation text a few days before, because we knew the author and the topic. Internet makes it possible :v:[/B][/QUOTE]
You should come pay our high schools a visit sometimes :v:
I think cheating on your homework is okay if you had a legitamate reason of not doing it, and as long as you could still at least get a high B or maybe even low A if there were to be a test the next day,
Honor system was that, for me, if I didn't understand it, I would learn by doing it. If I already knew it, i'd cheat.
Been doing that since middle school.
if you're in school for something you care about, you should never cheat. you're there to learn and if you're motivated to learn it, you won't even want to cheat.
High school, well, frankly, you're not learning much in high school and you have almost no chance that the teacher is active in your learning and studies so homework is much more likely to be just to see if you did it at all, not to help you practice it out but just work that is required for you to do then if it's not doing much for your learning, it doesn't matter if you cheat or not because you were never really learning in the first place.
For instance say you're in history in high school with a bad teacher who's homework and tests consist of nothing but memorization of dates rather than any of the actually important things that history is about, then cheating on that is maybe wrong but it certainly isn't hindering you. Cheating is wrong in my opinion if it's making you a worse person for doing it. That comes from cheating on things you care about, being dishonest with yourself is far worse than being dishonest with other people in those situations, you're standing in your own way by not doing what you can to learn a subject. In the case of the bad history class, your cheating might not impact your learning at all.
If your homework is something you already know, then why not? If doing more practice isn't going to help you, then you don't need to do any more of it. Practice can help, but too much practice is a waste of time.
Completely ignoring the moral side of things, cheating on homework won't be a detriment to anyone's learning if they already know all of the answers (or at least how to get to them).
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