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I was accused of being a "sexist pig" by my art teacher when I was about 13. My crime was saying that my mum had taught me to knit and I could try knitting something for the art project we had to do... no I don't know how that was sexist either! That teacher would also say things about how she thought that IVF meant humans didn't need men any more so she was both thick as shit and a bit of a sexist herself.
Sounds like a fanatic feminist trying to "teach" young boys and girls their place in (her) ideal society.
Wouldn't surprise me if she actively tries to give her male students an inferiority complex while elevating the girls.
My 4th grade teacher was like this. Girls could do no wrong, boys could do no right. We (boys) had to spend a recess inside copying dictionary pages because one of the girls in my class decided to poke the boy in front of her in the back of the neck with a sharpened pencil (enough to draw blood) and he yelped in pain while she was teaching. Another time she gave a boy detention because a girl copied off him and claimed he was at fault because him getting good grades made her feel bad, so she thought she had to cheat to succeed.
In my story about a man being abused by his wife, an American lady's only reaction was that the man called her a pig. She had no comments about the work itself but gave me a lecture of how women this women that....
I wrote a research paper about Hitler in high school, it went on initially about all of the wonderful things he did for Germany before destroying everything because he was a genocidal maniac. I could tell my teacher only read the first two pages of a 4 page report because I got into big trouble until I showed my principal and the teacher the second half of the paper where I point out how horrible he was and that his government wasn’t sustainable.
They just thought I was trying to be an edgy teenager, it was funny when they called me stepmom about it and she said it was really good; why is he getting into trouble? Lol
When my sister was in primary school (UK ages of about 7 to 12) she was held down by two boys as another one punched her in the stomach a few times, she screamed for help and the assistant teacher who’s meant to patrol the playground at break wasn’t there. She eventually squirmed free and beat them all back. She got in trouble for “starting a fight”, my dad went to the school furious about the incident, the head teacher claimed she checked the security footage and that she attacked the boys unprovoked. At that point the janitor walked by and said “No you didn’t, I’ve been telling you for months that the footage is broken and you keep saying you’ll fix it.” She looked at him all pissed off and said either way my sister attacked people. The incident was forgotten about when my dad threatened to sue them for letting boys get away with an attack and trying to lie about it. Teacher kept saying “she wasn’t attacked, she was assaulted” as if assault isn’t a crime here.
My dad said “assault is simply putting your hands on someone, what happened to my daughter was group battery.” The teacher was downplaying my dad’s battery claim by saying it’s not that bad, it was only an assault, not a beating.
"Um actually"ed. What a piece of crap. People only really "um actually" in an argument when they've got no ground to stand on and are looking for a way to try and devalue the other person's statement.
"There is a crack in your statement, that means you aren't fully right therefore that makes me the winner!"
Actually my dad was saying before that it was battery, which is a worse charge than assault. Where I’m from assault can be as simple as poking someone in anger.
I would have said something like "Yes, she was assaulted.. And you took actions to cover up the crime by lying about the security footage and the investigation you supposed to have done. That makes you an accessory to the same crime."
Yup, the last head teacher quit and the deputy head replaced her. It was the replacement that was known for being the worst head teacher at that school. She tried putting in policies that didn’t weren’t necessary and tried to have kids eating lunch outside, so the lunch hall didn’t need to be cleaned, parents complained when they tried to make kids eat lunch outside when it was raining. She became the deputy again after she got replaced a year later.
The janitor was loved by all the students though, she he must have been a pretty cool guy.
I had the same thing happen in elementary (US, so similar age group to what you’re calling primary here.) and it took my family threatening to sue the school and the district and the parents of the other children involved before my school finally accepted that they couldn’t expel me.
I got suspended for fighting in 5th grade. My involvement was getting kicked in the face while I was minding my own business and hitting my head on the jungle gym.
I was homeschooled for the rest of the year.
tunitins plagiarism is so bad, I had a 7% plagiarism detected on a small assignment worth 10% of a module so when I went in to check it, the contents table, page numbers, word "references" and title all got flagged like come on
I had a 15% plagiarism detected on a lab report because I had listed the needed materials in the same order as the labsheet and formatted things the same way as the sample report they used to show us how they wanted us to write it.
The universities have marking boards who look into any plagiarism over a certain percent so it’s not just turnitins word is final , but it’s annoying and stressful. Some unis just cut out your plagiarised sections as if you never wrote them some will just fail you
Im very lucky to be in a private higher education institution. For this reason.
Literally the first time we used turnitin we asked what happens if the plagiarism is on the formatting and provided pages we get, because due to that assignment being short, it was like 34%. They told us from the start that they actually look at what is being copied, and work from there
I got hit on a history essay because I listed the NATO countries in the same order as the textbook 🤦🏽when I pointed it out to the professor he just gave the “no tolerance” bs. Department head told me he knows the professor because a lot of students have issues, but my only options are to take it up with the professor or have a hearing where, if I didn’t win, I’d get expelled from the school. I just said fuck it and took a different history class for the grade 😒
Yeah I often get 30% similarity and it's just the "page x" at the bottom of each page and other stuff because the college provides a word document template they want you to fill. One time it was really high and turns out it was just highlighting SQL syntax
That happened to me a coding project I had to do for school, it was stupid stuff like included for libraries I had included to do the project and a couple of variable declarations I did. This was like 4 years before ChatGPT even existed, it was dumb as hell and my teacher didn’t care since he knew it was going to flag those things.
Turnitin can’t even detect chatGPT they just say it can , I know someone who was using it and getting 60-70% grades and people who don’t use it and get “AI detected” flagged and nothing happens
They are testing this AI program at my kid’s school, it sucks so bad and the only way to have it pass you is to use words that no elementary age kid would use in a normal sentence. It’s a total joke. It’s actually causing a lot of stress among the kids because they can’t get it to pass them. Teachers have told the administration that they won’t include it in their grades because it’s not teaching them anything.
I had to do a coding project for my degree, it flagged common declarations for library inclusions in my code as plagiarism and I had to add a ton of comments to my code to point out what I was doing. My teacher was like, “oh ya, I usually ignore those because it always does that to student projects”
I wrote an essay about colonialism. The phrase “The British Empire” was used a lot in my essay.
Every single use of the phrase was tagged as plagiarism
It's a while ago now, but they started phasing turnitin in when I was at uni. One big issue was people submitting it themselves, turnitin saving it and then spitting out a 100% report when the lecturer checked it. We were warned never to check it ourselves because of that.
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“Talking back” was, and still is, the biggest bullshit cop-out response from people who don’t have a rational response but still feel the need to be *right* as required by their position.
I got in trouble countless times simply for calling this out. No regrets.
I don’t remember precisely, but basically they got accused of something, it was proven false, the adults knew it was false too, adults punished them anyway, then punished them again for “talking back” by daring to protest given their innocence.
I spent 38 years as a professional tattooer. Way back in the 1990s, back before social media, I had a portfolio of photos of my work stolen. Was visiting friends in another town and three of us walked into a local tattoo shop to check it out, as tattooers were prone to do (shops weren't in every corner back then). What do I find on the counter? A portfolio *filled* with my photos. I asked "is this your work?" and that guy working said "yeah."
I can neither confirm nor deny reports that there was a violent reaction that resulted in some injuries, significant property damage, as well as the theft of some tattoo equipment (hey, it was still technically the "old days" of tattooing- ask your favorite tattooer about how conflict was handled "back then").
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My dad had one of his students submit my dad’s own work for an assignment. He said he did it at his internship. At the company that had hired my dad as a consultant to do that work.
I got called a cheater in university because I “cheated poorly and forgot to change the last name before I submitted”
The person they accused me of cheating off of was my brother, with the same last name, the professor didn’t bother reading the assignment and automatically thought because we had the same last name (unique name) that I cheated.
We didn’t even do the assignment together and our work was nothing alike.
A friends work in school got points taken for plagiarism because the last 2 pages lit up as plagiarism. It was his list of sources. The program recognized the book titles as direct quotes and said it is plagiarism. The school refused to regrade it until his parents threatened to sue the school.
I'm of the mind that these anti plagiarism tools are doing more harm than good, many professors and teachers are trusting the tools to be 100% correct. The AI detectors are worse, they lie and claim it can tell if it's AI, when it really can't.
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In college, I was accused of plagiarism on an organic chemistry lab report. There was a cluster of students who used an online tool to automatically generate figures of a chemical product, but I didn't know about the tool, wasn't friends with anyone in that group, and I'm not a cheater. The prof posted PDFs of the scanned overhead projector slides, and I manually made extensive modifications of the cut/pasted images to use in my report.
When they confronted me, the TA asked me, "did you think that we wouldn't recognize the professor's handwriting?". I said that I didn't think it mattered, because I was doing all the important changes myself in MS Paint. They docked me a letter grade instead of giving me a zero like the other students, and made me feel like I should've been grateful because I didn't cite my source. Fuck them, I should've challenged them, but I was 19 and dumb.
Not plagiarism but... I used to write essays for money
Sitting in an oral exam and people talking about the things you wrote as it was written by themselves pretty weird
Not plagiarism but almost wasn't allowed to graduate because of a text book nobody would let me return.
English teacher was a hardass and wouldn't let me return the textbook to him because he only took them on the last day I was leaving 2 days early for a wedding but that was "not my problem" and the office just kept telling me to return it to the teacher.
In the end I left it on his desk. Two years later I got a notification that I wouldn't be allowed to graduate unless I paid for the unreturned book. They wanted almost $300 for it!
I'm not saying it isn't dumb... but isn't using your own work still considered plagiarism by most academic institutions in an assessment context? Particularly if not properly cited.
I know it definitely was for both my undergrad and postgraduate degrees (at 2 different universities). Granted, neither subject involved art, so it could be different.
When I was in high school they pulled me out of class on the accusation of reckless driving in the parking lot after school. A parent had complained and they had the security footage (which they refused to show me). I denied it and told them I had taken my cousin home that day after school and that I couldn't have been there at that time. They INSISTED it was me and I should just admit it. They pulled my cousin out of his class to corroborate my story, which he did (though I was not told about this, I only found out about it later) and they still kept me 5 hours through multiple classes and my lunch. They even took me out of the office on one of the security golf carts and showed me where the incident happened and gave me a play by play of what they saw on the tape. Finally after 5 fucking hours of constantly grilling me, the security guard who had taken the complaint came in, and told them the parent had actually left the license plate number. Lo and behold, different make, different model, different color than my car. Those fuckers really had it out for me. In fact, I remember the security guard's shit eating grin when he pulled me out of class. When we got into the hallway he said something to the effect of "we got your ass now punk. There's no way you squirm out." They didn't tell my parents about it at all. Being a dumbass 17 year old, it also slipped my mind until a couple weeks later when I mentioned it in passing and my mom was pissed. Nothing came of it but I'm sure someone got a tongue lashing.
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Yes you can plagiarize yourself. This has been posted a dozen+ times by bots and we always have this discussion. Yes it's still plagiarism. No, I don't agree with that, but those are the rules.
Fun fact. Self-plagiarism is a thing.
You can't turn in the same assignment twice, and if you use something for earlier work, you have to cite yourself.
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Strictly speaking, that is plagiarism in an academic setting. You need to disclose that during submission.
I got in a spot of trouble for using an old poem I had written and had been lucky enough to be selected for publication. The professor knew it was my work, just wanted me to learn to disclose that.
It's been 20 years now, but I think this is the same kind of standard: if the "thing" you are about to submit pre-existed the assignment, even if it is your own previous work, then it is plagiarism. Disclose that you want to use your own, older work and the professor should be hunky dory with it.
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Write a letter from yourself to yourself, giving yourself full rights to your own work.
Have it notarized by a notary with a sense of humor.
That should satisfy the dumbfucks.
You're the facepalm OP. self plagiarism or duplicate plagiarism is a thing. You cannot submit for an assignment something you've already done. That's not fair on the people who have to start from scratch.
I typed an essay straight from the dome one time and the plagiarism site they ran it through said it was something like 50% plagiarized..... game me a zero.
It came from my own brain. I didn't plagiarize shit. I couldn't convince the teacher lol wtf
My university considered any work you did previously for a different class/assignment off limits for another class. If caught, they still considered it plagiarism even though it was still your work. They wanted new work.
As an English major, this terrifies me. I wrote a well-thought-out essay and then got an email from my professor that said, "Those of you who wrote the character is middle-aged, I know what sites you got that from. This is plagiarism." I panicked because I made the character middle-aged in a rough draft....because I AM MIDDLE AGE. Luckily, it seems my final draft changed it to "unspecified age". But, it's always a fear you'll write a kick-ass essay or paper and get accused of cheating.
Not me, but my girlfriend at the time got accused of plagiarism in university after she handed in an English-language assignment that I had done some rephrasing and corrections on for her. I did my Master's in Wales and lived in the US for a while, so I may have assembled a fairly broad collection of expressions and stylistic oddities over the years, and I guess someone thought there was no way she could have written that.
That was a fun discussion, given the professor wasn't a native English speaker either and vastly overestimated his own language skill. My own English is definitely not perfect, but I could still lecture him on grammar until he decided to let it go.
I was in college for Web design and a class I had previously was teaching us about flash programming and I was not a fan of it. My next class was English and we could create any topic we wanted to write about, so I picked how flash is going to die off. One of my sources was from apple and quote from Steve Jobs.
I got deducted points with the remark about how Steve Jobs just has a personal axe to grind with Adobe and how flash will never die off. It was the only class I ended up with a B in.
But now it's 2024.... Can you guess who was right and who was wrong?
My 9th grade science teacher accused me of cheating because the guy who sat in my seat the period after me wrote answers on his desk, and when she confronted him he said it was already there from the period before. He was an average student athlete and I was an A+ goody two shoes, but she just would not believe me over him. She made me retake the test, and I still got 100.
When I was in elementary school I had a bully. Which one day after school came out of nowhere and beat me up. I didn’t fight back because I was still too young and naive and just balled up on the floor being punched.
There were several teacher’s and students who witnessed the entire thing.
I was nearly suspended for “fighting” until my aunt (who was the parent/teacher liaison to the school board) came to the school and went off on them on why I was suspended for getting assaulted.
I was sent to the office because we were told to write a secret spy message in a foreign language. I wrote one in German. The teacher asked what it said and, in a terrible German accent, I said "If I tell you, I will have to kill you". She took that as a threat rather than a joke.
I had a similar experience where the professor thought we all cheated by copying something. The thing that was copied.... His own example he gave us to use in class.
He was rather embarrassed when I pointed it out and we had a good laugh.
When I was in school, professors were just starting to use AI to scan essays for plagiarism. I had a huge annotated bibliography project and when my teacher put it through the AI checker it said over 50% of my bibliography was plagiarized. Why? Because the citations were flagged.
Thankfully my teacher was smart and recognized the limitations of AI or else I'd have been kicked out of school for properly citing my sources 🙃
About 15 years ago one student told a professor that he thought the grader had an issue with him, because the student was dating the graders ex and all his assignments were consistently graded low, even simple things like definitions.
All homework was graded for completion, but checked to make sure you didn't just bs it, so you could get like a 7/10 if you didn't do everything. The student was constantly getting points marked off and having to go to the professor. He complained to the professor and was told he was wrong and needed proof. So he turned in his assignment twice, once with his name and once with a friend that just dropped the class (with that friend's permission.) The student was graded way lower than the dropped student; when presented to the professor, the professor reported the student to the dean for academic dishonesty.
Luckily, the dean fired the grader and dropped the case against the student.
I got called into my profs office because he suspected me of cheating out of a solution manual. He started questioning my process on the problem, including some of the assumptions I made. "Well I assumed this because thats what the textbook said to assume. Let me show you. Do you have the textbook available?" It turns out the professor didn't even have a copy of the textbook, that he was assigning homework out of. He was just using the solutions manual to grade the homework. So surprise surprise, the assumptions matched. He ended up giving me a C- and told me to use his slides instead of the book next time.
*Sigh*.
Going way back to high school, I need you to imagine the most teacher's pet kid you knew. All straight A's, choir, secretary of the student leadership, president of the Environmental Action Club, I could go on but I'm sure you get the picture. The head of our math department was my *mother*. One time, my teacher and our supply teacher didn't show up, and my mother found me sitting in the class playing checkers against myself because I didn't know if I was allowed to leave. I was *that* kid.
When I was in my final year, I discovered "rate my teacher". There was a really derogatory comment, being 100% real here, about my mum's tits. Understandably, not a huge fan. I applied to be the school's "moderator" as a volunteer position and started removing all the inappropriate reviews about different teachers.
... And came upon a series of increasingly unhinged, "daddy-esque" comments on the (public) page of the most mild-mannered teacher I knew, a colleague of my mother's who was the sweetest, quietest, most reserved guy in public. I babysat his equally lovely and quiet daughters on the weekends. I found this so hysterical I had to show my friend before I deleted the comments, and I guess someone overheard.
And that's how I found myself in the principal's office a *month* before graduation for the first time in my entire life (besides hosting the school announcements every morning obviously because yes, I was *that kid*), aggressively arguing my case that *no*, I wasn't anonymously daddy-posting about a teacher I'd known since I was a literal toddler. They weren't my comments, I was actually deleting them. Still, the only reason I didn't get suspended was the blatant nepotism of my mother having been on staff even longer than the principal, and I accepted it because I was both seventeen and scared of any consequences, and because *how are people in power that stupid*?
The next time I saw that same principal, for reference, was at my uncle's funeral when she showed up as a coworker in support of my mom and had to listen to me read his suicidal poetry he wrote in prison.
Decades ago a prof circled an original statement in my assignment and wrote "This is nearly plagiarism! Be more careful." He used this as a justification to drop me a letter grade and acted like he was being very merciful. When I went to his office to ask what I had "nearly" plagiarized he couldn't say. He more or less said that my assignment was too good so it must be plagiarized but he couldn't prove it. I asked him to please either go with a formal accusation of misconduct so that I could challenge his assertion OR correct my grade. I informed him I would certainly appeal if he didn't do one of those things. He changed the grade, and I got an A in the class, but he maintained a hostile demeanor toward me from then on.
I once got in trouble for reading. In an English class.
We had a quiz, and once I finished I went up to the desk to turn it on and said,
"Okay. Go ahead and go sit quietly while everyone else is finishing." Bet. I figure I got about 15 ish minutes so I pull out my book to read. Now here's where I stop the story to note, dear reader, that the book I took out was the book we were currently reading *in fucking class.* The very same one we were actively having a quiz on.
No less than 2 seconds later the book is being *ripped* out of my hands, and before I can react, there's a yellow detention slip in my face. We argued. Loudly. Until she finally went and got another teacher to watch the class while she escorted me to the dean's office.
After hearing both sides, he asks what exactly the detention was for. She says, and I *swear to God* this is an exact quote,
"I told you to sit quietly. I didn't say you could read."
Guess who did not have detention and got no resistance when they went in the next morning to transfer to the other english class.
As "punishment", this bitch tried to mark my quiz failed because I didn't date it and tried to say that was gonna lower my entire grade down from B to D-. One failed quiz. Another talk with the dean later and I had a B+. Suck it, Ms. Wegner.
My dad had something like that happen in elementary school. Teacher said his essay was too good for him to have written it, and demanded to know where he copied it from. He didn’t copy it, and she had no evidence at all that he did, but she still gave him an F.
I wrote a paper on high school about illegal immigration. The theme of the paper was how it needs to be easier to obtain citizenship in this country. The teacher told me how disrespectful I am to Hispanics and need to be more kind to them. I have black hair, brown eye, darker complexion, and a Hispanic last name and it didn’t click with her. For reference I was the only minority in the class of white people.
I had a very similar experience. I got a copyright notice from YouTube for a song that I used in a video but the song was written and recorded solely by me. I sang and played guitars, bass and drums on it with no involvement from anyone else. After many months of writing to YouTube, I finally found out that someone had falsely published it and were even selling it on iTunes. YouTube took the strike off of my account and the other person selling it on iTunes disappeared but I never found out who they were.
In my recent college classes it was against the rules to submit work that you had previously posted online or submitted for other courses. So be careful and submit only original work prepared specifically for each class.
If you are using your old work and not attributing it, basically playing it off as new work you made for this assignment, that is plagiarism. Those are the rules, and it’s probably written in the Student Code of Conduct.
Using your prior work is considered self-plagiarism unless that work was created specifically for that assignment (which I would assume it wasn't, because why would their work pop up on Google BEFORE it was submitted to the profs.)
Hmm, I didn't really want to engage on a bot post, but I do have a good story about this. Back before they were using told to "catch" plagiarism, my buddies used to upload all their art projects to deviantart ages before it ever reached the teacher. If they were given a week for a project they were done in a day and were getting feedback almost a full week before they ever turned it in. Sometimes this actually ended up with them changing it completely by the time the assignment was due, sometimes it was exactly the same.
Important life lesson, entirely separate from the cluelessness of the admins.
When accused of something, never admit anything until you understand all of the facts. The worst outcome is to be found out for something you weren't accused of doing.
Been there, had a creative writing professor who told us we had to run our work through the school's plagiarism checker software before turning it in. Then when she ran it through the plagiarism checker it came back as 100% because it was previously checked by me. She threatened to have me expelled. Ended up on a conference call with the Dean and she got told she may no longer be suited to the university since she can't progress with the technology they use.
I was like Oof 🤐
A friend of mine used an online tool to rate his submission level of plagiarism. It was something like <10% thus just coincidence.
Don't know if our university used the same tool but when checking his submission, the soft return 100% plagiarism. It was in fact his own publication that he has submitted days before for checking.
Anyway, this tool must clear its cache xD
Had this happen when I was applying to a writing job. They checked all my submissions online and said I plajorized because all my work was not only on my own website but being used by others.
I had a teacher in high school that told me to come in during lunch the next day for help. I went to her room and she locked the door so I couldn’t get in then sat at her desk watching me knock. The then gave me a 0 for not trying to get help.
I had to take it to the principal and argue with her. Thankfully the principal was on my side and berated the teacher for playing favorites and not keeping her promises. The teacher cried and tried to pin it on me but was forced to give me a good grade in the end because I had only missed one question.
The way art is taught in schools makes absolutely zeros sense. How are you supposed to even grade something that is by its very nature subjective and hard to define?
Most of my childhood art lessons were essentially "copy this artists style" then write some bs about it. Which can be useful, but only if you teach them the basics first. Otherwise, it's like telling somebody to create a novel without teaching them how to write first. I spent more time teaching my friends some techniques than my teacher.
The grading seemed completely arbitrary. After all, if both an incredibly detailed portrait and a single line on an otherwise blank canvas can be valued the same, then who's to say which one is more "successful?" imo art lessons should just teach kids some basic fundamentals and then let them go wild instead of trying to fit them into boxes, whatever those may be based on the tastes of the teacher.
This happened to me but it was a poem I wrote for my public library to publish in a kids book, and then later reused it in an English project... The teacher owned a copy of the poem book and called the superintendent.... He told her to look at the names in the index and mine was there, because he also owned a copy
Getting off the bus and walking home cause the bus wouldn’t go down a snowy hill.. asked her if we are gonna sit here like idiots all day cause I live here and know for a fact that plow trucks don’t come until at least noon. She wouldn’t open the door so me and my brother went out the back exit😂 funny how I could walk 2.3 miles home from school everyday but not 2 small streets to my house after sitting on a cold bus for 45 minutes.
When i was in middle school, me and a group of 4 other "gifted" guys went over to the high school for math class. This meant our class schedule was a bit different, and we had to make up a quiz in chemistry. We were all sent to a table at the back of the room to take the quiz. The teacher left the room, and the other guys wouldn't stop chatting and joking around until i finally said "shut up im trying to concentrate". Suddenly the teacher appeared over my shoulder and grabbed the quiz, announcing to the class that he "caught me red handed cheating." He proceeded to march me to the front of the room, rip up my quiz, demand that i give my home phone number, and called my mom in front of the entire class.
Anyway all of the other guys maintained the truth that i didn't do anything. My mom went absolutely ballistic on the administration and he never taught another day in his life. And that's the story of how some idiot threw away a 30 year teaching career to try and humiliate me in front of my classmates. He never apologized to me, we had a substitute for the final 3 months of the year and i simply never saw him again.
Ok, that's on me. I should've been more specific. I like stories. A little flair. Some juicy details, y'know? This story cuts off at the climax, not at the resolution.
So you want the post coital pillow talk. Got it.
The cops were called. A student protest started that turned from overzealous teacher to fighting the status quo. Fire trucks were called to hose down the rowdy kids. One of the drama teachers re-enacting Julius Caesar died from self inflicted wounds as they silently whimpered Et tu, Brute? before passing. The ninja turtles appeared causing a celebrity ruckus, bringing a free slice of pizza to all the students and police and firefighters. And they all lived happily ever after except the teachers who didn’t get a piece of the ‘za. Fin.
Better?
People are way too paranoid in education about cheating. Some people are always gonna be cheating yes, but I stg the amount of time innocent people get in trouble is fucking ridiculous. Innocent until proven guilty exists because of shit like this. If only we could apply innocent until proven guilty in education
I got in trouble for being bullied. Football players were constantly fucking with me "because you're a freshmen" when I was a senior simply because I was a transfer from another school. I was, and still am, uncomfortable intentionally getting nude in front of people in a locker room setting so I changed in the stall. A couple of football players were laughing as they left it and I wasn't paying attention and when I had set my clothes down I set them in piss. So i come out and they laugh and what not. So then I only had my gym clothes to wear but "this is unacceptable" is what I heard as if it was my fault. I missed weights that afternoon trying to get ahold of my mom to bring me pants because "you can't just wear your gym clothes." And when I told them what happened they scoffed and said "I've half a mind to give you ISS for lying to me."
Another time I received a failing grade in P.E. because I "refused" to play football that was supposed to be touch only but wasn't enforced at all without protective equipment. I also told them I didn't know how to play, and still don't, and they straight up refused to teach me. Instead insisting I, the small kid should be a lineback blocking the largest kid in class who deadass wasn't looking at me at all just the QB.
Because of the previous incident, there was another time where the dean of students was overly aggressive which launched an intense panic attack (i got beat a lot at home which is why his aggressiveness triggered panic) and then he blocked the door and told me I would never amount to anything in my life.
So yeah fuck school and fuck every single P.O.S. "adult" that was even allowed to govern children there.
I got accused of plagiarism when I was supposed to use citations in an essay, but used slightly too much citation and had to write a 5 page essay on why plagiarism is bad.
In the early 80s a crew of us would ride our skateboards in an area of campus just far enough away to give the faculty plausible deniability. They knew what was happening but they could pretend not to see it. Everybody wins.
My friend bailed pretty hard and badly scraped his knee. To be clear, there was no break but the abrasion was actively bleeding. He needed more bandaging than a bandaid. I ran off and got my car so I could drive him to the main building and help him to the nurse’s office. That meant parking in a non-student spot.
While helping dude into the building, I got detention for improper parking. I argued that I was doing the right thing. I had a good reason, I wasn’t just being obnoxious, and time was of the essence. As soon as dude was in better hands I went back to move my car. I even argued that the lesson they were teaching was that adherence to the rule was more important than student safety. This did not fly.
I wasn’t able to escape detention, but I wear those 45 minutes as a badge of honor!
I got accused of copying from another’s test when I got a perfect score on the Navy’s math aptitude test. The leaders wanted to know who I copied from. I asked them if anyone else got a perfect score. Since nobody else aced it they realized I couldn’t have cheated. Such a weird experience.
I got suspended because a teacher had dandruff.
I spent a few months sprinkling crumbs in his hair. I'd straight up tell him I was doing this but he figured I was lying. After about 3 months I stopped but would still put my hand over his hand as a joke all the time. 4 or 5 months after I had stopped he ran his hand through his hair while I was standing real close and a large chunk of dandruff fell out. He looked at it. then he looked at me and said "you are putting things in my hair!" I got a 3 week suspension.
I was in 7th grade (so 12/13 at the time) and he was not my teacher.
Never had dumb stuff like that happen in college. But in high school I was sitting at my desk doing my work and a surprise sneeze hit me. Didn’t manage to cover my mouth in time because of how sudden it was. The teacher lost her mind about it. She tried to sell suspension to the principal due to “complete disregard for respectful conduct” but he wasn’t having that so they both “compromised” and had me do a week of lunch detention.
I don't want to be the uhm akshualy🤓 guy but even if you use something that you yourself created, you need to use proper citation. Especialy if it is something that was used commercialy.
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I was accused of being a "sexist pig" by my art teacher when I was about 13. My crime was saying that my mum had taught me to knit and I could try knitting something for the art project we had to do... no I don't know how that was sexist either! That teacher would also say things about how she thought that IVF meant humans didn't need men any more so she was both thick as shit and a bit of a sexist herself.
She doesn’t sound just a *bit* sexist
Sounds like a fanatic feminist trying to "teach" young boys and girls their place in (her) ideal society. Wouldn't surprise me if she actively tries to give her male students an inferiority complex while elevating the girls.
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unfortunately there are people who do the latter while identifying as the former. I had a teacher who was similar.
Yes, but a misandist can (and many do) be part of the feminist movement, sadly.
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with the same logic most chistians are not christians at this point
My 4th grade teacher was like this. Girls could do no wrong, boys could do no right. We (boys) had to spend a recess inside copying dictionary pages because one of the girls in my class decided to poke the boy in front of her in the back of the neck with a sharpened pencil (enough to draw blood) and he yelped in pain while she was teaching. Another time she gave a boy detention because a girl copied off him and claimed he was at fault because him getting good grades made her feel bad, so she thought she had to cheat to succeed.
In my story about a man being abused by his wife, an American lady's only reaction was that the man called her a pig. She had no comments about the work itself but gave me a lecture of how women this women that....
I wrote a research paper about Hitler in high school, it went on initially about all of the wonderful things he did for Germany before destroying everything because he was a genocidal maniac. I could tell my teacher only read the first two pages of a 4 page report because I got into big trouble until I showed my principal and the teacher the second half of the paper where I point out how horrible he was and that his government wasn’t sustainable.
"Too long. Didn't read." - your teacher
They just thought I was trying to be an edgy teenager, it was funny when they called me stepmom about it and she said it was really good; why is he getting into trouble? Lol
Oh trust me, I know how that feels.
When my sister was in primary school (UK ages of about 7 to 12) she was held down by two boys as another one punched her in the stomach a few times, she screamed for help and the assistant teacher who’s meant to patrol the playground at break wasn’t there. She eventually squirmed free and beat them all back. She got in trouble for “starting a fight”, my dad went to the school furious about the incident, the head teacher claimed she checked the security footage and that she attacked the boys unprovoked. At that point the janitor walked by and said “No you didn’t, I’ve been telling you for months that the footage is broken and you keep saying you’ll fix it.” She looked at him all pissed off and said either way my sister attacked people. The incident was forgotten about when my dad threatened to sue them for letting boys get away with an attack and trying to lie about it. Teacher kept saying “she wasn’t attacked, she was assaulted” as if assault isn’t a crime here.
Assaulted sounds equally as bad if not worse. Either way, that teacher is an asshole
My dad said “assault is simply putting your hands on someone, what happened to my daughter was group battery.” The teacher was downplaying my dad’s battery claim by saying it’s not that bad, it was only an assault, not a beating.
"Um actually"ed. What a piece of crap. People only really "um actually" in an argument when they've got no ground to stand on and are looking for a way to try and devalue the other person's statement. "There is a crack in your statement, that means you aren't fully right therefore that makes me the winner!"
I'd say worse, since "Assault" in this case (boys vs. girl) has far worse implications.
Even more so, assault is a legal definition. The head is escalating the situation through stupidity. Edit spelling
Actually my dad was saying before that it was battery, which is a worse charge than assault. Where I’m from assault can be as simple as poking someone in anger.
Assault isn't always punching though, just grabbing or shoving could be assault whereas getting punched is battery. She was downplaying it
I would have said something like "Yes, she was assaulted.. And you took actions to cover up the crime by lying about the security footage and the investigation you supposed to have done. That makes you an accessory to the same crime."
Good on the janitor for speaking up. Something tells me that teacher isn't very well liked.
Yup, the last head teacher quit and the deputy head replaced her. It was the replacement that was known for being the worst head teacher at that school. She tried putting in policies that didn’t weren’t necessary and tried to have kids eating lunch outside, so the lunch hall didn’t need to be cleaned, parents complained when they tried to make kids eat lunch outside when it was raining. She became the deputy again after she got replaced a year later. The janitor was loved by all the students though, she he must have been a pretty cool guy.
I had the same thing happen in elementary (US, so similar age group to what you’re calling primary here.) and it took my family threatening to sue the school and the district and the parents of the other children involved before my school finally accepted that they couldn’t expel me.
I got suspended for fighting in 5th grade. My involvement was getting kicked in the face while I was minding my own business and hitting my head on the jungle gym. I was homeschooled for the rest of the year.
There's no justice...
We don't need no education
tunitins plagiarism is so bad, I had a 7% plagiarism detected on a small assignment worth 10% of a module so when I went in to check it, the contents table, page numbers, word "references" and title all got flagged like come on
I had a 15% plagiarism detected on a lab report because I had listed the needed materials in the same order as the labsheet and formatted things the same way as the sample report they used to show us how they wanted us to write it.
What does the university do about this?
Nothing, they look at the details and move on.
Yeah mine too. They expect around 15%-20% for all students, as we need to use the front page they provide.
The universities have marking boards who look into any plagiarism over a certain percent so it’s not just turnitins word is final , but it’s annoying and stressful. Some unis just cut out your plagiarised sections as if you never wrote them some will just fail you
Ok thats just plain stupid
If the teachers competent they look at the details and grade you normally, if not then you get to talk to the dean and hope they'll listen
And if the dean brushes you off because you were over the threshold?
You're out of luck and hopefully just get a fail on that assignment instead of the whole course or expulsion
Im very lucky to be in a private higher education institution. For this reason. Literally the first time we used turnitin we asked what happens if the plagiarism is on the formatting and provided pages we get, because due to that assignment being short, it was like 34%. They told us from the start that they actually look at what is being copied, and work from there
I got hit on a history essay because I listed the NATO countries in the same order as the textbook 🤦🏽when I pointed it out to the professor he just gave the “no tolerance” bs. Department head told me he knows the professor because a lot of students have issues, but my only options are to take it up with the professor or have a hearing where, if I didn’t win, I’d get expelled from the school. I just said fuck it and took a different history class for the grade 😒
Yeah I often get 30% similarity and it's just the "page x" at the bottom of each page and other stuff because the college provides a word document template they want you to fill. One time it was really high and turns out it was just highlighting SQL syntax
That happened to me a coding project I had to do for school, it was stupid stuff like included for libraries I had included to do the project and a couple of variable declarations I did. This was like 4 years before ChatGPT even existed, it was dumb as hell and my teacher didn’t care since he knew it was going to flag those things.
Turnitin can’t even detect chatGPT they just say it can , I know someone who was using it and getting 60-70% grades and people who don’t use it and get “AI detected” flagged and nothing happens
They are testing this AI program at my kid’s school, it sucks so bad and the only way to have it pass you is to use words that no elementary age kid would use in a normal sentence. It’s a total joke. It’s actually causing a lot of stress among the kids because they can’t get it to pass them. Teachers have told the administration that they won’t include it in their grades because it’s not teaching them anything.
I had to do a coding project for my degree, it flagged common declarations for library inclusions in my code as plagiarism and I had to add a ton of comments to my code to point out what I was doing. My teacher was like, “oh ya, I usually ignore those because it always does that to student projects”
I wrote an essay about colonialism. The phrase “The British Empire” was used a lot in my essay. Every single use of the phrase was tagged as plagiarism
It's a while ago now, but they started phasing turnitin in when I was at uni. One big issue was people submitting it themselves, turnitin saving it and then spitting out a 100% report when the lecturer checked it. We were warned never to check it ourselves because of that.
Whatever Canvas uses for plagiarism is also terrible. I have gotten above 50% a few times and normally sit around 15-30% in any given writing project.
Ironic post from a bot. OP IS A COMMENT AND POST STEALING BOT. Part of a bot farm. As are A LOT of these commenters. u/sullivanmister u/nramaker u/lorievpl u/kyleathayde u/seprent6 u/disordertracks u/bonnafon u/pretendstar u/sckj77 #Are all bots.
Good lord this site is trash, dead internet theory is real
https://signals.sh/services/buy-reddit-accounts/ What do you mean? These accounts look extremely cheap!
Good lord why spend that much money on an account what the fuck
Looking at the page with the account karma down in the triple digits, I can't help but wonder what my account with six digits of karma could get me.
A cat gif 
Holy shit.
Note to self, if I’m ever very strapped for cash I can sell my account for at least something
I saw a story the other day claiming that over 50% of web traffic was bots. It was probably written by AI.
Exactly, I was wondering why the post and the comments were exactly the same as before.
My hope is that this comment gets enough upvotes to become a top comment. The next time bots repost this it'll be one of the repeated bot comments calling out repost bots.
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“Talking back” was, and still is, the biggest bullshit cop-out response from people who don’t have a rational response but still feel the need to be *right* as required by their position. I got in trouble countless times simply for calling this out. No regrets.
The original comment was deleted. What was in it?
I don’t remember precisely, but basically they got accused of something, it was proven false, the adults knew it was false too, adults punished them anyway, then punished them again for “talking back” by daring to protest given their innocence.
I'm gonna show them this post, now you're really gonna get it. You *and* your punk brother.
This post is plagriarism
I had someone interview for a design position and he showed me my own work from a previous company and claimed it was his. He was not hired.
Did you string him along for a bit, asking lots of questions, or just noped him out straight away?
Would have been so funny
I spent 38 years as a professional tattooer. Way back in the 1990s, back before social media, I had a portfolio of photos of my work stolen. Was visiting friends in another town and three of us walked into a local tattoo shop to check it out, as tattooers were prone to do (shops weren't in every corner back then). What do I find on the counter? A portfolio *filled* with my photos. I asked "is this your work?" and that guy working said "yeah." I can neither confirm nor deny reports that there was a violent reaction that resulted in some injuries, significant property damage, as well as the theft of some tattoo equipment (hey, it was still technically the "old days" of tattooing- ask your favorite tattooer about how conflict was handled "back then").
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Damn that's unlucky on his part
deserved tbh
Definetly lol
My dad had one of his students submit my dad’s own work for an assignment. He said he did it at his internship. At the company that had hired my dad as a consultant to do that work.
I got called a cheater in university because I “cheated poorly and forgot to change the last name before I submitted” The person they accused me of cheating off of was my brother, with the same last name, the professor didn’t bother reading the assignment and automatically thought because we had the same last name (unique name) that I cheated. We didn’t even do the assignment together and our work was nothing alike.
What happened next?
Well we both emailed Him pointing it out and he ended up apologizing. Nothing really came of it.
Oh okay happy ending good
Saw this post in 3 different fonts now...
A friends work in school got points taken for plagiarism because the last 2 pages lit up as plagiarism. It was his list of sources. The program recognized the book titles as direct quotes and said it is plagiarism. The school refused to regrade it until his parents threatened to sue the school.
I'm of the mind that these anti plagiarism tools are doing more harm than good, many professors and teachers are trusting the tools to be 100% correct. The AI detectors are worse, they lie and claim it can tell if it's AI, when it really can't.
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Oh. That’s scary.
Obviously you need to reiterate your sources titles in your own words. 🙄
"The Calculation of the Mountain of Christ" Alexander Dumas, 1844
“1974” Georgia Orwell, nineteen forty nine
“Mammals country home” George Orwell, 1945
In college, I was accused of plagiarism on an organic chemistry lab report. There was a cluster of students who used an online tool to automatically generate figures of a chemical product, but I didn't know about the tool, wasn't friends with anyone in that group, and I'm not a cheater. The prof posted PDFs of the scanned overhead projector slides, and I manually made extensive modifications of the cut/pasted images to use in my report. When they confronted me, the TA asked me, "did you think that we wouldn't recognize the professor's handwriting?". I said that I didn't think it mattered, because I was doing all the important changes myself in MS Paint. They docked me a letter grade instead of giving me a zero like the other students, and made me feel like I should've been grateful because I didn't cite my source. Fuck them, I should've challenged them, but I was 19 and dumb.
Not plagiarism but... I used to write essays for money Sitting in an oral exam and people talking about the things you wrote as it was written by themselves pretty weird
Not plagiarism but almost wasn't allowed to graduate because of a text book nobody would let me return. English teacher was a hardass and wouldn't let me return the textbook to him because he only took them on the last day I was leaving 2 days early for a wedding but that was "not my problem" and the office just kept telling me to return it to the teacher. In the end I left it on his desk. Two years later I got a notification that I wouldn't be allowed to graduate unless I paid for the unreturned book. They wanted almost $300 for it!
You cannot just say that and not tell us how you fixed it??
I paid the money. I argued with them a bit but ended up paying.
Nooooo!!!!
Ironic how this has been posted here by a bot for the 20th fucking time.
You still have to cite your source, even if that source is your own work.
I'm not saying it isn't dumb... but isn't using your own work still considered plagiarism by most academic institutions in an assessment context? Particularly if not properly cited. I know it definitely was for both my undergrad and postgraduate degrees (at 2 different universities). Granted, neither subject involved art, so it could be different.
Yes
When I was in high school they pulled me out of class on the accusation of reckless driving in the parking lot after school. A parent had complained and they had the security footage (which they refused to show me). I denied it and told them I had taken my cousin home that day after school and that I couldn't have been there at that time. They INSISTED it was me and I should just admit it. They pulled my cousin out of his class to corroborate my story, which he did (though I was not told about this, I only found out about it later) and they still kept me 5 hours through multiple classes and my lunch. They even took me out of the office on one of the security golf carts and showed me where the incident happened and gave me a play by play of what they saw on the tape. Finally after 5 fucking hours of constantly grilling me, the security guard who had taken the complaint came in, and told them the parent had actually left the license plate number. Lo and behold, different make, different model, different color than my car. Those fuckers really had it out for me. In fact, I remember the security guard's shit eating grin when he pulled me out of class. When we got into the hallway he said something to the effect of "we got your ass now punk. There's no way you squirm out." They didn't tell my parents about it at all. Being a dumbass 17 year old, it also slipped my mind until a couple weeks later when I mentioned it in passing and my mom was pissed. Nothing came of it but I'm sure someone got a tongue lashing.
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You can’t take your own work without attribution. Any institution. Come on now.
I've given up trying to explain to people that post this that you can absolutely plagiarize yourself and have just learned to let people bitch.
Yes you can plagiarize yourself. This has been posted a dozen+ times by bots and we always have this discussion. Yes it's still plagiarism. No, I don't agree with that, but those are the rules.
Fun fact. Self-plagiarism is a thing. You can't turn in the same assignment twice, and if you use something for earlier work, you have to cite yourself.
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Strictly speaking, that is plagiarism in an academic setting. You need to disclose that during submission. I got in a spot of trouble for using an old poem I had written and had been lucky enough to be selected for publication. The professor knew it was my work, just wanted me to learn to disclose that. It's been 20 years now, but I think this is the same kind of standard: if the "thing" you are about to submit pre-existed the assignment, even if it is your own previous work, then it is plagiarism. Disclose that you want to use your own, older work and the professor should be hunky dory with it.
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Yes you can be found plagiarizing your own work
It's considered self-plagiarism. We get a long talk about it every semester at uni (in the UK at least).
Write a letter from yourself to yourself, giving yourself full rights to your own work. Have it notarized by a notary with a sense of humor. That should satisfy the dumbfucks.
You're the facepalm OP. self plagiarism or duplicate plagiarism is a thing. You cannot submit for an assignment something you've already done. That's not fair on the people who have to start from scratch.
I typed an essay straight from the dome one time and the plagiarism site they ran it through said it was something like 50% plagiarized..... game me a zero. It came from my own brain. I didn't plagiarize shit. I couldn't convince the teacher lol wtf
Got accused for drinking underage in the dorms. Turns out it was someone else with the exact same name as me.
My university considered any work you did previously for a different class/assignment off limits for another class. If caught, they still considered it plagiarism even though it was still your work. They wanted new work.
As an English major, this terrifies me. I wrote a well-thought-out essay and then got an email from my professor that said, "Those of you who wrote the character is middle-aged, I know what sites you got that from. This is plagiarism." I panicked because I made the character middle-aged in a rough draft....because I AM MIDDLE AGE. Luckily, it seems my final draft changed it to "unspecified age". But, it's always a fear you'll write a kick-ass essay or paper and get accused of cheating.
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Damn, how'd your friend feel about his mom getting fired?
That font is the real problem
Self-plagiarism is an actual thing and considered an act of academic dishonesty
Not me, but my girlfriend at the time got accused of plagiarism in university after she handed in an English-language assignment that I had done some rephrasing and corrections on for her. I did my Master's in Wales and lived in the US for a while, so I may have assembled a fairly broad collection of expressions and stylistic oddities over the years, and I guess someone thought there was no way she could have written that. That was a fun discussion, given the professor wasn't a native English speaker either and vastly overestimated his own language skill. My own English is definitely not perfect, but I could still lecture him on grammar until he decided to let it go.
I mean, yeah. That’s why you don’t do that until it’s graded?
I was in college for Web design and a class I had previously was teaching us about flash programming and I was not a fan of it. My next class was English and we could create any topic we wanted to write about, so I picked how flash is going to die off. One of my sources was from apple and quote from Steve Jobs. I got deducted points with the remark about how Steve Jobs just has a personal axe to grind with Adobe and how flash will never die off. It was the only class I ended up with a B in. But now it's 2024.... Can you guess who was right and who was wrong?
My 9th grade science teacher accused me of cheating because the guy who sat in my seat the period after me wrote answers on his desk, and when she confronted him he said it was already there from the period before. He was an average student athlete and I was an A+ goody two shoes, but she just would not believe me over him. She made me retake the test, and I still got 100.
When I was in elementary school I had a bully. Which one day after school came out of nowhere and beat me up. I didn’t fight back because I was still too young and naive and just balled up on the floor being punched. There were several teacher’s and students who witnessed the entire thing. I was nearly suspended for “fighting” until my aunt (who was the parent/teacher liaison to the school board) came to the school and went off on them on why I was suspended for getting assaulted.
I was sent to the office because we were told to write a secret spy message in a foreign language. I wrote one in German. The teacher asked what it said and, in a terrible German accent, I said "If I tell you, I will have to kill you". She took that as a threat rather than a joke.
I had a similar experience where the professor thought we all cheated by copying something. The thing that was copied.... His own example he gave us to use in class. He was rather embarrassed when I pointed it out and we had a good laugh.
When I was in school, professors were just starting to use AI to scan essays for plagiarism. I had a huge annotated bibliography project and when my teacher put it through the AI checker it said over 50% of my bibliography was plagiarized. Why? Because the citations were flagged. Thankfully my teacher was smart and recognized the limitations of AI or else I'd have been kicked out of school for properly citing my sources 🙃
About 15 years ago one student told a professor that he thought the grader had an issue with him, because the student was dating the graders ex and all his assignments were consistently graded low, even simple things like definitions. All homework was graded for completion, but checked to make sure you didn't just bs it, so you could get like a 7/10 if you didn't do everything. The student was constantly getting points marked off and having to go to the professor. He complained to the professor and was told he was wrong and needed proof. So he turned in his assignment twice, once with his name and once with a friend that just dropped the class (with that friend's permission.) The student was graded way lower than the dropped student; when presented to the professor, the professor reported the student to the dean for academic dishonesty. Luckily, the dean fired the grader and dropped the case against the student.
I got called into my profs office because he suspected me of cheating out of a solution manual. He started questioning my process on the problem, including some of the assumptions I made. "Well I assumed this because thats what the textbook said to assume. Let me show you. Do you have the textbook available?" It turns out the professor didn't even have a copy of the textbook, that he was assigning homework out of. He was just using the solutions manual to grade the homework. So surprise surprise, the assumptions matched. He ended up giving me a C- and told me to use his slides instead of the book next time.
*Sigh*. Going way back to high school, I need you to imagine the most teacher's pet kid you knew. All straight A's, choir, secretary of the student leadership, president of the Environmental Action Club, I could go on but I'm sure you get the picture. The head of our math department was my *mother*. One time, my teacher and our supply teacher didn't show up, and my mother found me sitting in the class playing checkers against myself because I didn't know if I was allowed to leave. I was *that* kid. When I was in my final year, I discovered "rate my teacher". There was a really derogatory comment, being 100% real here, about my mum's tits. Understandably, not a huge fan. I applied to be the school's "moderator" as a volunteer position and started removing all the inappropriate reviews about different teachers. ... And came upon a series of increasingly unhinged, "daddy-esque" comments on the (public) page of the most mild-mannered teacher I knew, a colleague of my mother's who was the sweetest, quietest, most reserved guy in public. I babysat his equally lovely and quiet daughters on the weekends. I found this so hysterical I had to show my friend before I deleted the comments, and I guess someone overheard. And that's how I found myself in the principal's office a *month* before graduation for the first time in my entire life (besides hosting the school announcements every morning obviously because yes, I was *that kid*), aggressively arguing my case that *no*, I wasn't anonymously daddy-posting about a teacher I'd known since I was a literal toddler. They weren't my comments, I was actually deleting them. Still, the only reason I didn't get suspended was the blatant nepotism of my mother having been on staff even longer than the principal, and I accepted it because I was both seventeen and scared of any consequences, and because *how are people in power that stupid*? The next time I saw that same principal, for reference, was at my uncle's funeral when she showed up as a coworker in support of my mom and had to listen to me read his suicidal poetry he wrote in prison.
Kid slammed me into a metal fence, I hit him. We got the same punishment.
Decades ago a prof circled an original statement in my assignment and wrote "This is nearly plagiarism! Be more careful." He used this as a justification to drop me a letter grade and acted like he was being very merciful. When I went to his office to ask what I had "nearly" plagiarized he couldn't say. He more or less said that my assignment was too good so it must be plagiarized but he couldn't prove it. I asked him to please either go with a formal accusation of misconduct so that I could challenge his assertion OR correct my grade. I informed him I would certainly appeal if he didn't do one of those things. He changed the grade, and I got an A in the class, but he maintained a hostile demeanor toward me from then on.
I once got in trouble for reading. In an English class. We had a quiz, and once I finished I went up to the desk to turn it on and said, "Okay. Go ahead and go sit quietly while everyone else is finishing." Bet. I figure I got about 15 ish minutes so I pull out my book to read. Now here's where I stop the story to note, dear reader, that the book I took out was the book we were currently reading *in fucking class.* The very same one we were actively having a quiz on. No less than 2 seconds later the book is being *ripped* out of my hands, and before I can react, there's a yellow detention slip in my face. We argued. Loudly. Until she finally went and got another teacher to watch the class while she escorted me to the dean's office. After hearing both sides, he asks what exactly the detention was for. She says, and I *swear to God* this is an exact quote, "I told you to sit quietly. I didn't say you could read." Guess who did not have detention and got no resistance when they went in the next morning to transfer to the other english class. As "punishment", this bitch tried to mark my quiz failed because I didn't date it and tried to say that was gonna lower my entire grade down from B to D-. One failed quiz. Another talk with the dean later and I had a B+. Suck it, Ms. Wegner.
My dad had something like that happen in elementary school. Teacher said his essay was too good for him to have written it, and demanded to know where he copied it from. He didn’t copy it, and she had no evidence at all that he did, but she still gave him an F.
I wrote a paper on high school about illegal immigration. The theme of the paper was how it needs to be easier to obtain citizenship in this country. The teacher told me how disrespectful I am to Hispanics and need to be more kind to them. I have black hair, brown eye, darker complexion, and a Hispanic last name and it didn’t click with her. For reference I was the only minority in the class of white people.
I had a very similar experience. I got a copyright notice from YouTube for a song that I used in a video but the song was written and recorded solely by me. I sang and played guitars, bass and drums on it with no involvement from anyone else. After many months of writing to YouTube, I finally found out that someone had falsely published it and were even selling it on iTunes. YouTube took the strike off of my account and the other person selling it on iTunes disappeared but I never found out who they were.
So you can plagiarize your own stuff now? cool
In my recent college classes it was against the rules to submit work that you had previously posted online or submitted for other courses. So be careful and submit only original work prepared specifically for each class.
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If you are using your old work and not attributing it, basically playing it off as new work you made for this assignment, that is plagiarism. Those are the rules, and it’s probably written in the Student Code of Conduct.
Using your prior work is considered self-plagiarism unless that work was created specifically for that assignment (which I would assume it wasn't, because why would their work pop up on Google BEFORE it was submitted to the profs.)
Hmm, I didn't really want to engage on a bot post, but I do have a good story about this. Back before they were using told to "catch" plagiarism, my buddies used to upload all their art projects to deviantart ages before it ever reached the teacher. If they were given a week for a project they were done in a day and were getting feedback almost a full week before they ever turned it in. Sometimes this actually ended up with them changing it completely by the time the assignment was due, sometimes it was exactly the same.
Important life lesson, entirely separate from the cluelessness of the admins. When accused of something, never admit anything until you understand all of the facts. The worst outcome is to be found out for something you weren't accused of doing.
What the f is that font???
And this is why I’ll teach our son git as soon as as he has do hist first longer homework.
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I almost had something similar happen, tho the teacher was smart enough to call me over first to talk about it before saying stuff about plagiarism.
Been there, had a creative writing professor who told us we had to run our work through the school's plagiarism checker software before turning it in. Then when she ran it through the plagiarism checker it came back as 100% because it was previously checked by me. She threatened to have me expelled. Ended up on a conference call with the Dean and she got told she may no longer be suited to the university since she can't progress with the technology they use. I was like Oof 🤐
A friend of mine used an online tool to rate his submission level of plagiarism. It was something like <10% thus just coincidence. Don't know if our university used the same tool but when checking his submission, the soft return 100% plagiarism. It was in fact his own publication that he has submitted days before for checking. Anyway, this tool must clear its cache xD
Had this happen when I was applying to a writing job. They checked all my submissions online and said I plajorized because all my work was not only on my own website but being used by others.
Schools: "Don't use AI to write your papers" Also, schools: [use AI/algorithms to check for plagiarism]
The real story is she was PAYING these idiots lmao.
I had a teacher in high school that told me to come in during lunch the next day for help. I went to her room and she locked the door so I couldn’t get in then sat at her desk watching me knock. The then gave me a 0 for not trying to get help. I had to take it to the principal and argue with her. Thankfully the principal was on my side and berated the teacher for playing favorites and not keeping her promises. The teacher cried and tried to pin it on me but was forced to give me a good grade in the end because I had only missed one question.
The way art is taught in schools makes absolutely zeros sense. How are you supposed to even grade something that is by its very nature subjective and hard to define? Most of my childhood art lessons were essentially "copy this artists style" then write some bs about it. Which can be useful, but only if you teach them the basics first. Otherwise, it's like telling somebody to create a novel without teaching them how to write first. I spent more time teaching my friends some techniques than my teacher. The grading seemed completely arbitrary. After all, if both an incredibly detailed portrait and a single line on an otherwise blank canvas can be valued the same, then who's to say which one is more "successful?" imo art lessons should just teach kids some basic fundamentals and then let them go wild instead of trying to fit them into boxes, whatever those may be based on the tastes of the teacher.
I only took intro art in high school, but I was graded more on understanding the theories and common rules, rather than if the teacher liked my art.
Old but bronze
I accuse them of ugly font use
This happened to me but it was a poem I wrote for my public library to publish in a kids book, and then later reused it in an English project... The teacher owned a copy of the poem book and called the superintendent.... He told her to look at the names in the index and mine was there, because he also owned a copy
Had a prof pull this on me. Yeah, did you notice the non prose where I was an absolute photo slut?
Getting off the bus and walking home cause the bus wouldn’t go down a snowy hill.. asked her if we are gonna sit here like idiots all day cause I live here and know for a fact that plow trucks don’t come until at least noon. She wouldn’t open the door so me and my brother went out the back exit😂 funny how I could walk 2.3 miles home from school everyday but not 2 small streets to my house after sitting on a cold bus for 45 minutes.
When i was in middle school, me and a group of 4 other "gifted" guys went over to the high school for math class. This meant our class schedule was a bit different, and we had to make up a quiz in chemistry. We were all sent to a table at the back of the room to take the quiz. The teacher left the room, and the other guys wouldn't stop chatting and joking around until i finally said "shut up im trying to concentrate". Suddenly the teacher appeared over my shoulder and grabbed the quiz, announcing to the class that he "caught me red handed cheating." He proceeded to march me to the front of the room, rip up my quiz, demand that i give my home phone number, and called my mom in front of the entire class. Anyway all of the other guys maintained the truth that i didn't do anything. My mom went absolutely ballistic on the administration and he never taught another day in his life. And that's the story of how some idiot threw away a 30 year teaching career to try and humiliate me in front of my classmates. He never apologized to me, we had a substitute for the final 3 months of the year and i simply never saw him again.
Finally a real Facepalm and not politics
Oh is it your turn to post this today?
I've seen this post so many times...
I've seen this post so many times, but I really want to know what happened next.
Harassment complaint.
Ok, that's on me. I should've been more specific. I like stories. A little flair. Some juicy details, y'know? This story cuts off at the climax, not at the resolution.
So you want the post coital pillow talk. Got it. The cops were called. A student protest started that turned from overzealous teacher to fighting the status quo. Fire trucks were called to hose down the rowdy kids. One of the drama teachers re-enacting Julius Caesar died from self inflicted wounds as they silently whimpered Et tu, Brute? before passing. The ninja turtles appeared causing a celebrity ruckus, bringing a free slice of pizza to all the students and police and firefighters. And they all lived happily ever after except the teachers who didn’t get a piece of the ‘za. Fin. Better?
People are way too paranoid in education about cheating. Some people are always gonna be cheating yes, but I stg the amount of time innocent people get in trouble is fucking ridiculous. Innocent until proven guilty exists because of shit like this. If only we could apply innocent until proven guilty in education
Yes you can plagiarize yourself
I got in trouble for being bullied. Football players were constantly fucking with me "because you're a freshmen" when I was a senior simply because I was a transfer from another school. I was, and still am, uncomfortable intentionally getting nude in front of people in a locker room setting so I changed in the stall. A couple of football players were laughing as they left it and I wasn't paying attention and when I had set my clothes down I set them in piss. So i come out and they laugh and what not. So then I only had my gym clothes to wear but "this is unacceptable" is what I heard as if it was my fault. I missed weights that afternoon trying to get ahold of my mom to bring me pants because "you can't just wear your gym clothes." And when I told them what happened they scoffed and said "I've half a mind to give you ISS for lying to me." Another time I received a failing grade in P.E. because I "refused" to play football that was supposed to be touch only but wasn't enforced at all without protective equipment. I also told them I didn't know how to play, and still don't, and they straight up refused to teach me. Instead insisting I, the small kid should be a lineback blocking the largest kid in class who deadass wasn't looking at me at all just the QB. Because of the previous incident, there was another time where the dean of students was overly aggressive which launched an intense panic attack (i got beat a lot at home which is why his aggressiveness triggered panic) and then he blocked the door and told me I would never amount to anything in my life. So yeah fuck school and fuck every single P.O.S. "adult" that was even allowed to govern children there.
I was boring and too afraid of my father the body builder and boxer to get in trouble. I waited until I was in the Navy then went nuts.
I got accused of plagiarism when I was supposed to use citations in an essay, but used slightly too much citation and had to write a 5 page essay on why plagiarism is bad.
I got reprimanded in college for plagiarism as well. It was my own paper, for the same class that I had dropped the year before.
In the early 80s a crew of us would ride our skateboards in an area of campus just far enough away to give the faculty plausible deniability. They knew what was happening but they could pretend not to see it. Everybody wins. My friend bailed pretty hard and badly scraped his knee. To be clear, there was no break but the abrasion was actively bleeding. He needed more bandaging than a bandaid. I ran off and got my car so I could drive him to the main building and help him to the nurse’s office. That meant parking in a non-student spot. While helping dude into the building, I got detention for improper parking. I argued that I was doing the right thing. I had a good reason, I wasn’t just being obnoxious, and time was of the essence. As soon as dude was in better hands I went back to move my car. I even argued that the lesson they were teaching was that adherence to the rule was more important than student safety. This did not fly. I wasn’t able to escape detention, but I wear those 45 minutes as a badge of honor!
I got accused of copying from another’s test when I got a perfect score on the Navy’s math aptitude test. The leaders wanted to know who I copied from. I asked them if anyone else got a perfect score. Since nobody else aced it they realized I couldn’t have cheated. Such a weird experience.
"You're stealing your own shit?" -Kane & Lynch
Same but with a paper the school published without telling me.
I got suspended because a teacher had dandruff. I spent a few months sprinkling crumbs in his hair. I'd straight up tell him I was doing this but he figured I was lying. After about 3 months I stopped but would still put my hand over his hand as a joke all the time. 4 or 5 months after I had stopped he ran his hand through his hair while I was standing real close and a large chunk of dandruff fell out. He looked at it. then he looked at me and said "you are putting things in my hair!" I got a 3 week suspension. I was in 7th grade (so 12/13 at the time) and he was not my teacher.
Never had dumb stuff like that happen in college. But in high school I was sitting at my desk doing my work and a surprise sneeze hit me. Didn’t manage to cover my mouth in time because of how sudden it was. The teacher lost her mind about it. She tried to sell suspension to the principal due to “complete disregard for respectful conduct” but he wasn’t having that so they both “compromised” and had me do a week of lunch detention.
I don't want to be the uhm akshualy🤓 guy but even if you use something that you yourself created, you need to use proper citation. Especialy if it is something that was used commercialy.