Thread: I'm thinking about cheating..

My son tells me that they have a program at his high school. It works like this,,, all papers must be submitted typed in a standard font. All papers go through a check program. The program will bring up any matches on a search engine that are deemed 40% similar to any portion of the submitted paper.
The teacher can then scan the hits and decide if it is plagerism. Any material that is too similar, must have been sited as a refrence or the student is busted.