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I myself am a student and believe there is no excuse to cheating. It doesn't matter if the class is boring or you happen to think your teacher is inept, cheating is still wrong. Yes yes, i too have done the sharing and sectioning off of long ridiculous busy work assignments, but i admit that is still wrong. I make no excuses for that, though you could imagine why i would do it at the time. In the end, it was still wrong.
Cheating only serves to put the people who don't cheat into a disadvantaged position. There should be no reason why those honest people should work harder to play catch up with the cheaters.
If you were confidant enough about your own skills, you should be able to go through school without cheating for the most part. If you think you need to rely on cheating to get by in school, then you need admit to yourself that you aren't very bright an that you need to get some serious legitimate academic help.
In my opinion, the worst cheaters are the ones that think that they need to do it so that they can inflate themselves to straight A's or close so that they can get into the college that they want. Its sad that those people can't admit to themselves that if they couldn't do it without cheating, then they weren't meant to go to or just wasn't good enough for that college anyways.
In my high school, cheaters were as abundant as lockers. Almost all the near straight A's honor students were cheaters. It was such a disgusting practice in that they did whatever it took to make them look the best on paper to college admissions officers.
Whats incredibly amusing is that a lot of the people who fell into that category all ended up going to the same fallback state college anyways--not that thats bad, but its definatly not what they had hoped for in those 4 years of perfecting their cheating and application methods.
I believe that most people cheat because they can't admit that they aren't nearly as academicly talented as they think they are or "deserve" to be--and that is the saddest part of all.
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