As neta1o said there are programs that most teachers use these days that find out if you're plagarizing. Also it's easy for a good teacher to figure out if you're cheating or not, most everyone has a very specific writing style and they can usualy tell if you've strayed from it or not. Also while I do tend to slack in school so that I can diddle and daddle with my computers I do understand the importance in it (it being school/homework). It is a required part of the lesson proccess that works. So why not do something that works? If you are bleeding you aren't going to try to drink all the blood that's coming out when you could just put a bandage on it and be done with it. Aka don't fix something that isn't broken.

I do see the want for people to cheat, I mean a lot of kids opt not to read the books in English class and just go to sparknotes.com or something to read the sumarized versions. Ok I usualy hate school books myself but I am an avid reader and I hate these sites. They take away so much from the book, even if there isn't anything to take away in the first place.

It's school, you have to do it, so why not just work hard and do good at it? Cheating will get you no where FAST.

All this coming from a procrastinating highschool freshmen who gets average grades when I could get better is rather odd, but hey, mind and body aren't always alike.