DH> MS>     A better question would be "Why not cheat on homework"?
DH> MS>     How many teachers just assign homework without correcting it 
DH> in 
DH> MS> had such teachers, and one was immortalized by D.C.-area HS 
DH> teacher 
DH> MS> Williams in his book.)
DH> MS>     When a teacher just checks to see that kids hand in 
DH> _something_ 
DH> MS> only that it was turned in, there's every incentive to cheat.  
DH> 
DH>   I won't argue the issue that teachers need to review the work they 
DH> assign, but the fact that they may or may not *should* be irrelevant 
DH> to 
DH> whether or not the student cheats or does their own work.
    Whether cheating is morally wrong is one issue.
    But when teachers assign work and just require that _something_ be handed 
in without correcting it, they are _teaching_ students to cheat.  Assigning 
work that the student knows will not be examined in any detail (but merely 
must be turned in) tells the student: cheat in this class and you'll have 
more time to put in on homework in another course where your work pays off in 
your grade.
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