5 Kids Busted for plagiarizing

[thescreensavers]

Wow, I was in my class teacher wants to talk to all students privatively we only got 9 kids in the class 5 kids got busted and there so stupid they all had the same paragraphs so thats how they found out. Our princicpal came in and said that we use www.turnitin.com to check for plagiarizing me and 2 other kids are in the green and 1 kid was not here to do the essay


BTW it was a Macbeath essay about fair is foul and foul is fair.

 

[SLCentral]

pwnt. Did they get suspended/expelled, or just get a zero on the assignment?

 

[FallenHero]

I bet they at least used sentences.

 

[slsmnaz]

I really hope your essay is not as poorly written as that post.

 

[Howard]

Do your essays have to be spell-checked?

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
I bet they at least used sentences.

 

[James Bond]

After assessing your writing skills, I get the feeling you all shared the same grade.

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: Tizyler
After assessing your writing skills, I get the feeling you all shared the same grade.

QFT.

Also, this has to either be a 5th grade class or a "slow" class for 5 of 9 people to hand in the same paragraph and think the teacher wouldn't notice.

Edit: Why would they even need to use a program to check, I doubt the papers were more than a couple of pages and the cheating should have been painfully obvious.

 

[Juice Box]

OOooooohhhhhhhhh.....they're in trrrroooouuuubbblllleeeeeeee

 

[neovan]

my head hurts from reading your post.

 

[mad0maxx]

In High School probally suspended for the rest of the year...

In College you get expelled from the college forever or a long time!

 

[BarneyFife]

Nobody gets expelled for the rest of year from high school for cheating.

 

[trOver]

ouch

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Nobody gets expelled for the rest of year from high school for cheating.

Yeah, it's more a detention and a zero for the grade. Plus, it's on your college transcipt.

 

[dj2004]

They were stupid if they thought they could get away with it, especially when using turnitin.com.

 

[ryan256]

My sister is an 8th grade english teacher and she runs into this constantly. Unfortunately for her students her husband & his best friend are very internet savvy and love playing "Bust the Cheater" whenever her students hand in papers. LOL... they actually timed themselves to see who could be the first to find plagiarism proof! His best is 2min, 14 seconds.

 

[jtvang125]

Maybe you should of plagiarized too. Atleast then I can read what you're saying.

 

[Fineghal]

God thats an easy essay to begin with.

You want a fun essay? In depth comparison/contrast between Macbeth and Heart of Darkness.

That should drive them to cheat.

 

[zinfamous]

My head just exploded. It sounds like you would have been better off cheating as well.

 

[Whisper]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
In High School probally suspended for the rest of the year...

In College you get expelled from the college forever or a long time!

Depends on the degree of the plagiarism. In college, from what I know, punishments generally range from simply receiving a zero on the assignment or in the course (especially if the teacher chooses not to report you), to academic probation, to suspension/expulsion for a certain amount of time.

However, if it's found that you pervasively and/or maliciously plagiarized on something like your thesis or dissertation, your degree will likely get yanked.

 

[Jeeebus]

Similar thing happened in a political science class of mine in college. Approximately 10 people in the class. Final exam was a take-home essay. Visited the professor a week after the test, and he showed me the essays of four of my classmates... word for word the same. They were all being called in the next day, and I don't recall seeing any of them back the next year.

But, as someone already pointed out.... 10 kids in a high school class?

 

[wheresmybacon]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Wow, I was in my class teacher wants to talk to all students privatively we only got 9 kids in the class 5 kids got busted and there so stupid they all had the same paragraphs so thats how they found out. Our princicpal came in and said that we use www.turnitin.com to check for plagiarizing me and 2 other kids are in the green and 1 kid was not here to do the essay


BTW it was a Macbeath essay about fair is foul and foul is fair.

As long as they had SOME original work and they used sentences I would have passed them. If your paper looked anything like this post you would have failed.

 

[PHiuR]

I knew the OP's post was bad, but it was real bad the 2nd time reading it. I'm used to reading stuff on the internet, where I Just take the general information and not care for sentence structure.

 

[Al Neri]

Theoretically isn't everything plagarism?

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
In High School probally suspended for the rest of the year...

In College you get expelled from the college forever or a long time!

yea ok...