This is similar to the argument against allowing steroid use in various professional sports. If you can't compete unless you compete dishonestly (I'm not taking a side here on the question of whether steroids are actually bad, but if they're banned then their use is certainly cheating), eventually everyone cheats.
The obvious difference is that in the case of steroids in sports, it's an arbitrary system designed primarily to entertain people and make money; the outcomes are completely irrelevant to the success of the enterprise as such. In the case of child education, if everyone cheats, no one learns, and we've just raised a generation of dishonest, ignorant children.
The obvious difference is that in the case of steroids in sports, it's an arbitrary system designed primarily to entertain people and make money; the outcomes are completely irrelevant to the success of the enterprise as such. In the case of child education, if everyone cheats, no one learns, and we've just raised a generation of dishonest, ignorant children.