Term papers have just come in and the senior English teacher asked if I
could check a paper for him ( it was already several days late) It took
less than a minute to type in a phrase in google and get back the
article. The student hadn't even changed the title-- it was from a
journal and obviously above the student's usual work level. That took
care of the first four pages ( and the bibliography which was still in
the original type face very different from the paper itself and not the
form required by the teacher) I typed in the next phrase and got a second
article which was not even cited. There was not a single work of the
paper that belonged to the student. The principal was contacted as was
the parent. The parent is blaming the teacher -- did she know she wasn't
supposed to copy articles ( actually yes because this was discussed in
class) The result would be that the student fails English and could not
graduate. The parent has appealed to the superintendent. Just waiting to
see what will happen. How can we raise responsible adults when parents
never seem to want any consequences for actions and nothing is wrong when
their kids do it. The teacher is planning to copy Gone With the Wind and
see if he can sell it under his name ;)
The really interesting thing to me is that when I looked at our student
handbook, it says nothing about the academic consequences of cheating/
plagiarism. It only address the discipling aspect-- first offense
handled in the classroom, second offense possible suspension. Do most
schools have a school policy on the academic punishment or it this usual
left up to the individual teachers?
Darlene Yasick
Media Specialist
Hopkins High School
lib027yas1@juno.com
Only the mediocre man is always at his best-- Somerset Maugham
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