Caught the little bastard

[treeskin]

One of Donna's students copied his final project from a flowerbed design offered on the Spring Hill Nursery website. Stole the pics and everything.

Note to future students: if you're going to copy a design, make it something simple. Hard-to-find hybrids of perennial centaurea are a bit of a giveaway.

Edited to add: And what truly sucks is, unless she can flunk him specificly for cheating, he's going to pass the damn class. Just barely, with a D, but....grrrrr. I hate it when manipulative little bastards like this one play the system and get away with it.

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[draco-kc.livejournal.com]

http://www.jccc.net/home/depts.php/5105/site/319.01_code_of_conduct

I say she should report him, assuming you've gotten the documentation ducks all in a row.

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

As a student who tries to do it the right way...
Toast the Little Bastard.

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

The way our department runs, she can't do anything to him besides give him a 0 on the project (which she did, gleefully), because that's what's in her syllabus.

What the handbook says and what actually happens are two different things, damn it all.

I'm going to call Dr G when he's back from his holiday vacation, and see just how harsh I can be if I can prove a student's cheating, and put that in my syllabus for next semester.

[tnrkitect.livejournal.com]

I always have liked the way your mind thinks. :)

[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

Wow. When I was in college, plagarism such as this was grounds for disciplinary actions, including flunking the class and being expelled - and that was university policy! I don't think that a policy on "cheating" should have to be included in a syllabus - it is EXPECTED that the work a student turns in should be their own. Gah.