is selling homework illegal?


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I don't think its illegal, but schools most likely have some sort of policy against it. I don't see any problems with it, the homework gets done, and someone makes a couple of bucks on it. Its win-win.

Try win-lose:

The seller gets money,but your intelligence doesn't go up (actually it will never will if you BUY it)

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Try win-lose:

The seller gets money,but your intelligence doesn't go up (actually it will never will if you BUY it)

Fortunately for me, I do my homework and get good marks in school. Its those damn procrastinators. On a side note, I have a math presentation to do in a little over 12 hours, and I haven't even started :D

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Fortunately for me, I do my homework and get good marks in school. Its those damn procrastinators. On a side note, I have a math presentation to do in a little over 12 hours, and I haven't even started :D

:o get working! ;)

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:o get working! ;)

I'm a last minute person, I'll be alright. If not, all nighters are no big deal, but its just a simple powerpoint presentation, and I've got all of my information and stuff. I just have to bang it all together, make it look pretty, and I'm all set.

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I just think this -- if you don't try, and instead have to cheat to get through school: how will you do in a career? Well, that assumes that your career invloves such things as you're cheating on, but it's still got to do with the whole lazyness and work ethic junk that some teachers spew at us.

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it's morally wrong, but it's not against any laws. just remember, some honors programs will reject or kick you out if they find you cheating. that doesn't look good on a resume.

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people who buy and sell homework need to be flunked out with no possibility of finishing for several years and have their hands chopped off

kudos to ya Anita (Y) .. great post !

Well I think chopping off the hands is bit extreme :D flunking them would be the best way to go.

in our college if you do it and get caught, you will get an F in that class and you will be black listed so no chance for you to apply for an internship.

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"Selling homework" is probably not illegal in the sense that one will find themselves in court or prison.

It is almost certainly against policies of most schools out there, however, be a formal policy be stated somewhere or not (and many places may well have policies against cheating, plagiarism, and the like, though "selling" homework is probably so rare as to not be formally stated).

"Selling homework" would indeed be grounds for expulsion and severe negative academic record virtually everywhere, be one seller or buyer, and for the consequences, it might as well be "illegal" when it comes to things that end up in court otherwise.

Anyway, not "illegal" in court cases as far as I know, but might as well be "illegal" when it comes to the consequences should one particpate in such, regardless of whether or not one is formally "caught" at the time.

In practicality, one who does such will most often be "caught" for clearly illegal stuff somewhere else down the road, frankly speaking.

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i was kind of meaning like me selling it (just an example..), would anything happen

You're not considering it, are you?

I would imagine the consequences of selling homework would be FAR greater than purchasing would.

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Not illegal AFAIK (depends on where you are which I don't pretend to know the laws of every state, or CT), but unethical in that schools have rules and certain ethics you are supposed to adhere to and not doing so could get you and/or the buyer(s) reprimanded in some way.

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"Selling homework" is probably not illegal in the sense that one will find themselves in court or prison.

It is almost certainly against policies of most schools out there, however, be a formal policy be stated somewhere or not (and many places may well have policies against cheating, plagiarism, and the like, though "selling" homework is probably so rare as to not be formally stated).

"Selling homework" would indeed be grounds for expulsion and severe negative academic record virtually everywhere, be one seller or buyer, and for the consequences, it might as well be "illegal" when it comes to things that end up in court otherwise.

Anyway, not "illegal" in court cases as far as I know, but might as well be "illegal" when it comes to the consequences should one particpate in such, regardless of whether or not one is formally "caught" at the time.

In practicality, one who does such will most often be "caught" for clearly illegal stuff somewhere else down the road, frankly speaking.

But how can someone be punished for doing something that isn't stated? If I did a project or something "wrong", but what i supposedly did "wrong" isn't stated in the requirements for that project, i wouldnt get points off, so how would this happen?

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at my school, there is a large market for selling homework... ie: if someone needs a current event done, someone else will do it for them and sell it to them. is this legal?

go for it, a quick way to earn money. just don't get caught!

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Not only is it ethically wrong, but plagiarism comes into play as well. And even if that person doesn't copy it verbatim, you still run into all kinds of other problems.

For example, if someone were to sell you a one page research paper on how polution damages the o-zone layer, even if you were to alter the wording or even change some words, you still would be, in a sense, paraphrasing. And, as anyone who has taken an English class, or some other form of writing/composition class, you must always give credit to the original author when paraphrasing. Sometimes, even footnotes are necessary. I doubt your instructor would be thrilled if you turned in a paper with footnotes giving credit to another student in your class.

And, if you simply say "Well, I would just use my own wording and change everything", well, you might as well do the homework yourself.

When it comes to Math, I don't know. There's usually only one right answer, so that's where the ethics come into play, I guess.

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