Cheaters never win. School systems are so laid back on their rules, guidelines, and consequences. Therefore students cheat. Many students if given the chance copy someone else's work.

        Students lose the sense of responsibility when they have other people do their work. They feel that they don’t have to do anything to pass a class.  As long as they turn in a paper with their name on it, their thoughts or not, they will pass that paper and end up passing the class.  This is all that matters to them.  This makes them think that life will always be given to them with a silver spoon.  This idea is what gets them in to deep trouble in the real world, and at jobs.  Employers don't want lazy, cheating workers that can’t pull their own weight and that is where students that cheat will be left behind.

        Along with losing their creativity, the students that copy will never get to feel that sense of accomplishment.  It comes when the paper, hard job, or event that took you from having fun to working is finally complete.  They don't get that excitement when they get their paper back, that thank you, or the money when they worked hard and did everything just right and perfect.  The feeling isn't there, because they didn’t do it.  When they get the paper back it’s like okay I did good, I knew that’s what was going to happen.  Oh well next assignment and they never learn or make progress.  If they never have that feeling, they never get that motivation to do better next time.
        Yet, there may be one thing that is the worse, when people pass off someone else's work as their own.  That would be the person that forges.  They don't gain any knowledge.  It is proven that people learn from the things they do, and if someone else is doing their work, they are never going to learn anything.  Life is all about making mistakes and learning from them.  This may be one of the most effective methods of learning.  For example, if a player performs extremely poorly in an extremely important game, chances are that player will always remember what he or she did wrong and what could have done to score that goal, or make that big stop at the end of the game.
        The people that cheat will go through life expecting someone always be there to do their work.  When the time comes that they will actually have to do the work themselves, they aren't going to have a clue on where to start and then someone with less time on will do it and will show that person up, which could lead to the lazy person getting fired.  They won't know to take responsibility for the things they do and they will never be able to be creative and think out-side of the box. They will be so used to having someone else do their work that they will fail at anything they try to accomplish alone.  These people need to be stopped early and not only for their sake, but because it is not fair to the people whose work that they are always stealing. People who work hard should receive credit for the things they do.  The people that don't work hard and are lazy should not receive credit and should be punished for trying to steal. We must reward the hard workers and that are brave enough to speak up when they notice these wrong decisions.