would you rather be taught by a hard-assed jerk who cracked down on the cheats, or a nice guy who turned a blind eye? The guy who turns a blind eye will probab

would you rather be taught by a hard-assed jerk who cracked down on the cheats, or a nice guy who turned a blind eye? The guy who turns a blind eye will probably be an effective teacher to those willing and wanting to learn. Removing a cheater from the class does not help them learn more effectively, nor does it help the non-cheaters learn more effectively. Why waste on policing, what can be spent on teaching. It is not like the cheaters, when confronted, realized they were losing all sorts of knowledge they could otherwise obtain. Ethically, I have a bigger problem with a student submitting his creative works to be used in a private corporations database AND charge the student and school for the "service". It is not only the cheating students that are undermining the credibility of the University and its degrees. If you want to teach morality, once somebody gets to college age, it may be a bit late for reformation.