NBC nightly news had a special on this the other night. There are even web sites that teach kids how to cheat!

I know this wasn't cheating but my kids were really 'good' about 'forgetting' to bring homework home. they wouldn't tell me until the school was closed. They knew my work hours and would do this on days I would be getting of work late. So I would just give them an assignment of my own and give them a certain length of time to do it. We had current World Books and other resources. Sorry, this was before the days of computer. Then they had to turn my assingments in to their teacher! Of course they got no credit for these assignments but it cut down on their forgetting homework.