To be fair, it isn't a completely unreasonable statement. Copying off others teaches you absolutely nothing, and just worsens your grades. People go to school to learn. If you are there, and you cheat you do not learn anything.

By the end of school, if your lucky and have not gotten caught, in your adult life your going to be an incompetent, lying drain on society. Cheating is not as easy in university. People need to learn that it won't get them anywhere.

Yeah, I can very much relate to what you have said, especially the second part being about "cheating is learning".

 My friends and I were once like that in middle school- junior high-, cheat on tests with essay questions, but then one day we just talked about it and decided to help each other out of that bad habit.

We thought about high school and how we would be moving schools and how that habit of ours would impact us academically.

We cheated well and never got caught by the teacher but we knew that others in class- classmates- were catching on our act and were beginning to cheat as well. It's like the high score we saw scribbled on our test papers didn't speak of the knowledge we learned during his lessons, but that how it rated us as "cheaters".

 The fact that we were class "smarties" and that we were doing this disgusted us, so we made it a game- a challenge- and a pact between us to just get high grades based on learning, notes, and memory. Also, we respected our Geography teacher too much to continue.

However, one of my pals didn't like that notion. He was hooked on it- almost like a drug-and he was very horrible at being subtle during his act. In no time, he got caught. English teacher came straight out and said, "Boy, give me the paper on your lap". He did, we could see the shock and shame in his eyes. He was an ESL student, but then on he learned and stopped cheating.

"Cheating by using the work of others is the same as ruining your life with drugs."

That is probably one of the worst statements I've ever read.

Yeah, because injecting yourself with illegal substances that could kill you and others is exactly the same as not knowing trivial facts that will never be useful later in life and looking at someone's paper to get them.

Honey, life is not fair.

A teacher of mine that has recently retired told us this, "cheating is learning." Its learning how not to cheat, how to cheat well, and possible if you are half of an honest person, how to learn what you are doing wrong.

I have seen kids drawl on their stomachs, arms, and desks, and I've been told private school girls write on their thighs under their skirts. Today we can’t be anything but perfect. Schools run based on test scores, and nothing else matters.

I am a straight A student, I am a member of NHS. I am also a member of numerous clubs, and activities. I would like to admit that I have never cheated, but students who attempt to see the full horizon, and explore all they can, don’t have time for the vast amounts of work they see every day.

Discrimination is a big thing in my school. If you are part of the football team, softball team, wrestling team, a cheerleader, or even if you have the right last name, you can cut classes like butter and still pass with flying colors. However those who are student tutors, band members, golf members, yearbook staff, art club members, ect. You couldn’t do this if you tried. It seems when you cheat, the teachers grade your tests, homework, and what not just a little harder. It’s not just students, but how many teachers have cheated for you?

You can’t cheat on every test you take. Somewhere; someone will see how much knowledge you really have. Life isn’t fair, but life is sweet.