Unfortunately, it took MsCriseyde a bit longer to do this because she is engaged in trench warfare over a plagiarism case. A student is too lazy to write his/her own !@#$% paper, and I get tied up in months of meetings and paperwork because I had the unmitigated gall to report him/her to the dean by submitting printouts of the web sites s/he copied and to assign a zero on the paper. Somebody please remind me again what the hell honesty and ethics are good for?
Oh, good for you MsCriseyde. You are NOT tilting at windmills.....if more teachers don't start demanding consequences for plagiarized work, a college degree won't be worth a damned thing soon.
My own daughter is still in High School, but most of my friends' kids are already in college.....and the complacent attitude about "bought, borrowed or stolen" papers makes my hair stand on end. How on earth did it get to be as bad as it appears to be?
Bad enough the parents don't give a damn about their kids' screwy take on morals and ethics.....(what part of "Do not lie, cheat or steal" don't they get?)...but what makes the SCHOOLS so complacent about the problem??
Rainey...who didn't mean to wander OT!
