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Do you support cheating in school?

I don't. It's annoying that a lot of students in my Culinary Arts class cheat on paper assignments. I don't cheat and what do I get in there? Over 100%. Cheating just shows that the person is lazy and thinks that he or she can get through life by cheating.

I don't support it but it's basically working hard to not work hard.
Cheating is actually just as hard as studying. Plus you never really know if the person you're cheating off us has the answers right.

That being said I always had permission to cheat for like 5 minutes on every test I took and was able to use my notes.
Ah, the beauty of being in special ed for half my life.

Though some people can get through life by cheating, it doesn't always work. I mean it's worked for me but I still don't agree with it.
I was never stupid enough to copy off someone else either. No, I got way more creative than that.

I dont agree with it but with some people you can understand if they have needed to cheat. For example, say I am a 40 year old man with four kids and a wife, I recently lost my job that I have had for 20 years of my life and I only have one qualification in my previous job for doing sales and such, I notice a job available but it requires a level higher than I am qualified for but I more or less know what I am doing, so I apply and say that I have the qualification as I really need to provide for my family and I know theyre unlikely to actually check.

I understand cheating or lieing in those sort of circumstances as much as I think it is wrong still.

As for cheating in tests and exams, I dont think you should at all, I remember at school when people would copy my work and it was nothing but an annoyance especially when I was giving detailed answers and such. As Marietta has said above, you never know if their answers are correct or not although I can see people more likely to cheat off someone who they know is a good student. You could probably get found out too if they exam marker knows you personally and suddenly sees your answers being much better than you have ever performed in class before.

The guys that sit next me in English always look at my answers all the time and it's so annoying! I really dislike cheating. It's unfair some of us have to work so hard, and some of us can just lie.
Michael, whoever you was reffering to was probably bad in school. Therefore it's his own fault.. But I know what you mean, you'd do anything for your family.

With my ISA's at college and my coursework at GCSE I'll admit I got so much help that it really was basically cheating, expecially seeingas the ISA's are meant to be done under exam conditions. However, I'd put money on the fact that our college wasnt the only one to do this, so while I don't agree with it, as the opportunity to do so was there I'd be stupid not to take it as I'd be effectively just putting myself at a disadvantage to everyone else (or at least everyon else in my college who got equal help.)

As regards to cheating during an external exam, you'd be insane to do that imo, as the effort you'd have to go to to not get caught, seems you may aswell ahve spent that time revising. And if you do get caught you can get disqualified from all your exams from that board, so it seems a huge risk. One that's not worth taking.

i do cheat... though is very hard to cheat in university. i study what i do unserstand. what i don't understand, i take a pic of it and i take my mobile with me in case i need it. but , as i need to watch the professor all the time, it becomes complicated because they chairs are displayed like in cinema so, if the professor looks up or walk or something else, she can see it if she focus on me. glad that never happened.

I dislike cheating to be honest~

I'm not entirely bothered if someone copy's me because if I'm wrong, they're wrong. It's their fault for copying.

I'm kind of a hypocrite seeing as our table in French copy off each other when it comes to spelling tests so we don't get detention. We only do it then, though~
Yet... when I think about it, the whole class does it and its not as if its an important test. Just a spelling test, like those you get in primary. (Tho', it's in French)

I can't say I like when people take advantage of me. And I cheat very rarely myself.

But it's interesting, that nobody brought up the notion, that one of the remote side effects of school and university is that eventually something is supposed to end up in the brain. So by cheating, you're actually punishing yourself. Or maybe should I say: Diminishing that negligible side effect...

Only cheated in some of the sciences modules in PLATO (online credit recovery), few times in CAD (gotta love shared network files)

rarely.. but the teacher allow us so.. (: