The majority of my posts against the “Do my homework” questions are that your teacher is going to come on and read it and fail you for it. It is cheating I think. If I end up ever teaching a college course I will definatly look on this site and other answer sites for people asking my question and severily repremand them for it. I really find it funny when I can open up and old text book I have and post exact chapter line and word for an answer and I’d be 100% right. If students would be interested in doing their own work and not having everyone else do ti for them there would only be questions asking if they are pregnant or someone proving they are a biggot. These types of questions serve a purpose, but I will make fun when someone wants a synopsis of a book for a report that was due an hour ago.

I’m a college student and some subjects are hard for me to grasp… I try to do them on my own and will sometimes ask the question to compare my answer to another person’s. I really do not think someone is “doing my homework” if they generously take time to explain to me how to do the problem… also, they cannot take my tests for me; therefore, I might as well get all the help I can before exams.

I’d argue that just about half the questions, if not more, in the social studies and history categories are people looking for homework help. And amazingly, there is actually a “homework help” category here! I am surprised that anyone ever answers questions there. Who wants to do someone else’s homework for them? And it is not just kids. Some of these people are supposed adults in college. It is hard to resist giving some of them wrong answers just to teach them a lesson, but I figure it is better to let them do it. They’ll pay for it down the road when they do not know how to think for themselves. For that matter, the answers given here are often wrong!

p.s. I definitely would exclude people looking for math help from this. Math is difficult for some people, and it is not something you can just “look up.”

I don’t think it’s laziness, at least not very often. I believe that students want to observe the thought patterns of people who have experience in analyzing and answering questions of the types that they encounter in school, and they will occasionally ask their questions, specifically requesting elaboration of the answerer’s thought processes, as a part of their own process of learning how to deal with such questions. It’s not anything akin to intellectual plagiarism; it’s more like learning by example.

They’re more interested in the thought process used in arriving at the answer than they are in the answer itself.

I actually have no problem with students asking questions about their homework. Maybe they can’t find the answer in the book and have no one to help them at that time. As long as they don’t put their whole homework assignment on here. Sometimes when you get the answer it shows you how to solve the problem and can use that for future reference.

well i as a student personally think that to some extent u r right, there must be some lazy ones who doesnt even try to solve their excercises, but i think the rest only posts excercises when they really cant solve them. for example yesterday i read a question about maths excercises and the girl said only those three ones she couldnt solve, and it means she did try it. so i dont think why we shouldnt help them. and if the asker is just a lazy one, then u did not help him much becouse he will not learn it, but decieve himself and the teachers-but later it ll turn out that he is nuts.

Most seem that way to me but I have seen questions where it looked like the student did actually try and was in real need of help. But in general I agree with you.

Even as a student, I think it is pretty lazy, but I’m not complaining because a lot of the questions are fairly simple.

well i posted up a question when i didnt get how to do one of the problems in my math homework for summer school…like i didnt understand the problem and the book really help so whats wrong with asking for help?

Hahaha YES. It’s crazy, you can tell who all the kids in summer school are… I especially hate the ones that have multiple choice answers. “Can you please explain this concept to me” I can understand, but “find the error” and “A, B, C or D” questions drive me crazy.