Are you restless like me?
Jenna's former blog. It will still be here, but she will not be here.5/17/2005
Oh my love, sailing to Norway.
I ate, cried, napped, went to the AP meeting, ate, and did (the past week's) homework today.
I shake my fist at you, apathy.
Do I hear a three-day-weekend coming up? Yes, yes I do.
For that, I am thankful.
Very.
Oh, one last thing.
[begin rant]
WTF? Someone completely plagiarizes a seven page history paper, and they still get some credit for it?! Granted, they fail the assignment, but the points are cumulative, our grades aren't weighted averages. Instead of getting the fat-ass ZERO and call home and maybe detention or even suspension they deserve, they get half credit. Just because "rephrasing" isn't the "sophomore skill." It's common-fucking-sense. You DON'T turn in a paper with words you can't even pronounce, yet alone define. And even if you understand it, no 10th grader writes like an encyclopedia. It's obvious when you just print something up.
Okay, kids cheat, their problem. But they shouldn't get away with it. Plagiarism is ILLEGAL, it's not just a school rule, it's a LAW.
I cannot believe they just accept that shit.
If you turned in another kid's paper with your name on it you'd get in trouble, why not when you turn in a Wikipedia article?
What the hell is wrong with Ms. Hearne and the rest of the teachers at our school?
And how does someone need to be taught to rephrase? Until then are they just supposed to automatically cut-and-paste everything? Since when do you need to learn how to put something in your own words? And if you're going to just "rephrase" a whole webpage as your paper, then you're already screwed. That's not writing a paper, that's summarizing. And.it's.crap.
[end rant]
I shake my fist at you, apathy.
Do I hear a three-day-weekend coming up? Yes, yes I do.
For that, I am thankful.
Very.
Oh, one last thing.
WTF? Someone completely plagiarizes a seven page history paper, and they still get some credit for it?! Granted, they fail the assignment, but the points are cumulative, our grades aren't weighted averages. Instead of getting the fat-ass ZERO and call home and maybe detention or even suspension they deserve, they get half credit. Just because "rephrasing" isn't the "sophomore skill." It's common-fucking-sense. You DON'T turn in a paper with words you can't even pronounce, yet alone define. And even if you understand it, no 10th grader writes like an encyclopedia. It's obvious when you just print something up.
Okay, kids cheat, their problem. But they shouldn't get away with it. Plagiarism is ILLEGAL, it's not just a school rule, it's a LAW.
I cannot believe they just accept that shit.
If you turned in another kid's paper with your name on it you'd get in trouble, why not when you turn in a Wikipedia article?
What the hell is wrong with Ms. Hearne and the rest of the teachers at our school?
And how does someone need to be taught to rephrase? Until then are they just supposed to automatically cut-and-paste everything? Since when do you need to learn how to put something in your own words? And if you're going to just "rephrase" a whole webpage as your paper, then you're already screwed. That's not writing a paper, that's summarizing. And.it's.crap.
posted by Jennanana # 11:56 PM 
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When I had biology my sophomore year, 90% of my class did that on the same paper. How stupid can a group of people be? But, since there were so many people, the student teacher (who caught us, it's doubtful my teacher would ever have noticed) just made everyone pick a new subject and redo it properly.
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