DH> MS>     But when teachers assign work and just require that 
DH> _something_ 
DH> MS> in without correcting it, they are _teaching_ students to cheat.  
DH> As
DH> MS> work that the student knows will not be examined in any detail 
DH> (but 
DH> MS> be turned in) tells the student: cheat in this class and you'll 
DH> have
DH> MS> to put in on homework in another course where your work pays off 
DH>  
DH> Whoa! C'mon Matt give me a break, since when does "busy-work" equate 
DH> to
DH> a lesson in "cheating"? 
    When a teacher just insists homework be turned in and doesn't examine it 
in detail but instead just checks it off as turned in, the student knows no 
amount of honest work betters his grade in the course.  
    Thus, a student in such a class has every incentive to cheat on homework 
so that he can work harder on homework in another class where hard work 
actually pays off.
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