Taken from cumaeansybil

[conuly]

Yes, this is cruel. But you know what? If it teaches her not to be so stupid in the future, it's worth it. Plagiarism is a crime. Cheating is dishonest, and if you're going to either, you should at least be intelligent enough not to go about it in this stupid fashion, randomly contacting people you don't know.

So the lessons to take from this are as follows:

1. Don't cheat
2. Don't give personal information to strangers online

Comments

[azuresunglasses.livejournal.com]

I hate it when people cheat. Seriously, ruin the grade curve for us all.
However, there are greater implications behind it. I go to a *very* high-stress, high-academic pressure school, and I'd say 60% of the student body has cheated. The way my school is run subtley encourages kids to do anything they can for the A. Sacrifice their integrity and conscience for... a score above 90. *le sigh* People I know do this, and I know they are not bad people, but instead the system corrupts them. It's quite ironic, actually, we were reading Frankenstein, and talking about how Shelley was trying to imply that society corrupts basically good beings with the character of the Creature, as people were cheating on their essays. For there to be a change, both the schools and the students have to change their mindsets.
On the one hand, it is extreme, and the poor girl probably didn't really deserve to be tortured like this.
On the other hand, Indian caste system? It's not exactly brain surgery, and it is an interesting subject. And she shouldn't be cheating.
Forgive my incoherant blabber, I'm tired.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

ruin the grade curve for us all

*twitch* That phrase just makes me tetchy, since I was always getting excoriated for "ruining the curve" by getting a hundred or ninety-five on the tests.

No, I didn't cheat. No, I didn't study either.