Academic Dishonesty

I read the pages in the text book about academic dishonesty. After reading it I found myself thinking about how true it was. We are shaping our whole lives here, not just the next few years. There are such severe consequences when it comes to plagirizing and I think that people are only cheating themselves when they do it. Why not really learn the material that you could use later in life? In high school cheating was not such a big deal, and it is true : everyone does it. But I think that if I student has carried themselves through high school by cheating, they have no other option when they get to college. It was easy in high school and now you can lose scholarships or be dropped all together. I think that cheating in high school causes many problems for those in college that haven't learned a lot.