Dose anyone have to do there own home work anymore now that there is yahoo answers?

I'm a junior in high school, and I do all of my own homework. I don't feel right with cheating. Even with math, my very worst subject, I don't cheat; I do all my own work and earn my own grades.

I do ask for help when needed, but that is different. Asking for help means that you need clarification on how to do something. To me, asking for help is okay, and encouraged. The key to success is understanding, and the best way to understand is to ask questions. Asking someone to do your homework for you, however, is not acceptable in my book, and it is a completely different story.

It's an honor thing, and it shows one's character. If I were to cheat, the guilt would eat at me. I want to earn my grades fair and square, and be able to take pride in my work. In today's society, many kids just don't get the same satisfaction from doing work as people did in years past. It's not encouraged/enforced as it was in the past. And it is SO much easier to cheat now, because we have the internet right at our fingertips.

To be quite honest, no, I don't really remember looking up information in books very much - at least not out of necessity. (I do it for fun all of the time. The library is my best friend! But for school, pretty much everything that we need is online or easy to access.) In many classes, we don't even use our textbooks anymore. In math classes, we don't have to write out our steps to solving a problem; we just use calculators. We don't learn much of anything. It's a shame, and a horrid waste of time. Instead of focusing on important things, like learning how to read and write proficiently, schools focus on other non-important things, and "teach to the test" - which is a really crappy way of teaching anything. Instead of learning how to research, make inferences and educated guesses, how to solve problems, and how to be fully functioning members of society, the schools teach us how to cheat, be lazy, and how to do the least amount of work possible.

I am VERY ashamed to be a student in the modern American public school system...

So have you ever asked a family member for help on homework?

Pretty much the same thing, except it is a complete stranger helping out. Besides, if you sat here all day asking for all your homework questions, it would probably take 10 times longer to get all the answers from yahoo. Much quicker to do it yourself. But if you are really stumped on 1 question, this is a good tool.

If you disagree, stay out of the homework help section.

i've never used this site for homework help. 95% of the people on here are as stupid as i am.