• Is cheating on your homework or in school ok?
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If you don't wanna learn the material and is willing to risk failing your tests, then go for it.
It depends on what my conscience tells me. I don't think I'd be able to look at my teacher without shame if I cheated.
Homework is a time suck. Sometimes it helps you sometimes it doesn't. If it's cookie cutter crap that you already know I'd say go for it. Otherwise you can but it might fuck over for the exam. As bullshit as having mastering physics everyday for physics was bullshit, I probably would know more physics if I did it out and google didn't exist. Anything creative I wouldn't. For code, only when I get really stuck will I look online for how someone did something and then I'll alter it as its not my code and no way does everything like I would. Rule #1 applies: Don't Get Caught! post 1111
Honor is what separates us from animals. You're given a task to do at school, you're expected to be honest about your own work and what you're asked to do. It gets kind of messy with high school because you're required to go there, and that's something I think should be optional. But even though you're forced to go there, I see a lot of people here who are placing the blame on other people for why they chose to violate their trust, and it's a mentality I also notice in people who steal things, who believe that they're entitled to more than they agreed to take because of something that they don't like about the other person/organization. You also ruin it for everyone else by cheating. I don't cheat and I can't stand being treated like someone who does, it's insulting and it also makes test taking significantly more difficult. My science classes at university only allow specific types of calculators for instance because people used them to cheat. This means that I have to use a $15 piece of junk that takes a long time to enter data and is really easy to make mistakes on, rather than using a free program on my computer or phone that does the exact same thing, while I can just avoid using functions that solve the problem for me or using the internet. Closed-note exams also add another layer of rote memorization in classes where the focus is on solving problems more than reciting information. My high school also forced us to install spyware on our computers after repeated cheating incidents. Ultimately, you get more perks by staying true to your word than by trying to take advantage of people, and that was something I learned the hard way. People really shouldn't base their ethics on whether they get caught.
If you're in any sort of high-level, high-workload course - absolutely. I took IB courses in high school and I started to get overwhelmed with the workload - until I realized every single one of my peers just googled everything and reworded answers and plugged math problems into wolfram alpha. As long as you're confident in your ability to do the problems, yes, cheating on busywork to speed up the time they take is fine. If it's an essay, fuck no, write that shit yourself. Busy-work, especially in high school, is a total waste of time - especially if you already understand the questions. [editline]16th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Explosions;46046993]No. You are taking credit for work that someone else did.[/QUOTE] It's funny that the reason cheating is so effective is because teachers copy and paste the questions from a workbook or find the questions online. I had multiple teachers in high school who would just take stuff from online - if you googled it you could find it in minutes and copying the answers by hand was about as effective a memory technique as cherry-picking the book for the answers. Often, the book wouldn't even have the answers that the questions had, so you literally had no choice but to google the answers. There's a fucking gigantic enormous dick-sized difference between stealing an essay and looking up word problems. Yes, repetition helps with memory, but when you're given 40 math problems to do every night and there's only 4 different types, it's an enormous time-sink that could go to work that matters more. Once you know the content, fuck it, write down the rest - your teacher won't notice and you won't be any worse-off. You'll have more time to sleep and you'll remember more if you start getting 8 hours instead of 6.
When you fuck up and fail tests later it's on you. Short of plagiarizing it's something you'd have to ask yourself not others.
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