<p>Thank you for posting this topic, the same issue has tormented my son. Cheating now is rampant, and it almost seems as though the teachers don’t want to know. In many of my son’s classes the teachers hand out the same homework packets and issue the same tests year after year. The socially well connected kids all have copies of past tests and know exactly what to study. Is this cheating? Not really, but it is is a huge disadvantage for the out-crowd kids and the kids that think it is just plain wrong. Some of the teachers have begun to crack down on plagiarism using web-based screening, but the punishment amounts to a slap on the hand. My son’s school will end up with about 8 valedictorians and a huge number of runner-ups. Many certainly deserve their standings, but many others do not. It would be impossible to report all of the cheaters; I blame an apathetic administration and lazy teachers.</p>