One of the main reasons that people stress academic honesty is that there is so much plagiarism in the school system now days. It seems like no one ever even attempts to do their own work. For me plagiarism is taking a whole paper or idea and claiming that it is your own. I think that dishonesty is where the person is so desperate to get a good grade that he/she just copies an others work so that they don't get an F on the assignment. One of the reasons that peope do this sort of thing is that teachers need to not have such a harsh penalty for getting in late assignments and that involves that the teacher has to understand that their class is not the single most important thing in the persons life. Class is important but there are things that trump classwork and teachers need to underestand that. the goal of teaching is to get the student to learn and if that student is learning then the teacher is doing his/her job not if that student is mindlessly regurgitating answeres on a peace of paper. But also know when you have given enough and need to just grade what is done.