> The school won't show mercy. I guess this is very specific to the US phenomenon explained in the article. In my German schooling history, cheating the homew

> The school won't show mercy. I guess this is very specific to the US phenomenon explained in the article. In my German schooling history, cheating the homework was trivial and well established. Everyone got the degree and it was a running gag that grades are inflated. If you fail you can just switch systems and do the degree somewhere else; no hard feelings. If you don't want to switch (because let's say you can't get another school to take you in the area and want to continue to live with your parents) there is a second educational path (zweiter Bildungsweg) which allows you do retry to get the degree. From my perspective, the pressure I was feeling was entirely self-made and - in retrospective - unnecessary. Therefore: I would love to see evidence whether or not those findings get approved in other educational systems like in the German speaking countries.