Are your students too lazy to cheat?

Yes, tons of them. I've got a bunch of dumping-grounds high school classes (the classes that are always the answer to "What's the easiest class to get my ____ requirement?"), and the apathy levels are just unreal.

I haven't bothered with anti-cheating measures for two years, because the ones who care enough about their grades to try to cheat are able to do fine without cheating because the bar couldn't be any lower. Most of them can't even be bothered to cheat. I can give them a list of things to know for a test, a chance to look them all up and write them down, and then the option to use those notes as a cheat sheet on the test, and I'll have maybe 3 students out of 180 do it.

Lately, my "practice tests" have just been pulling questions directly from the tests' question banks, so they can see the actual test questions ahead of time (and figure out all the answers with a bit of time, since they have unlimited attempts and they're all multiple choice). Guaranteed 100's on tests with barely any effort, especially since I don't try to prevent them from using written notes or typed notes either. But less than 5% will even click on the practice test a single time because it's "not for a grade," and of those 5%, most won't even bother to actually do more than look at an answer or two and then close it.

I get that some kids don't particularly care about their grades. But I just can't understand having so much apathy that they could get an A with the slightest amount of trivially easy work and no brain power, and will still take an F instead.

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