I'd be inclined to be a bit tougher...give the parents the grade for the project and give the kid an F for plagerism.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
There have been numerous occasions when we came across really exciting, well-done projects. Then we talk to the kid who supposedly did it and he/she understands nada. TILT!
Kudos for your interrogation. What the heck are you laughing about? I'd say we're fairly close in agreement on this one. I don't know exactly how your "TILT!" compares to my "plagerism", but we're both headed in the same direction. When I caught a group of kids cheating in an advanced level Geometry class, I took them aside, showed them the proof and told them all, they had an "F" for the quarter; softy that I was, I allowed them to make up the work. But if they made up all the work and got "A"s the rest of the marking period, the best grade they could expect was a "C" [not good for a group in the advanced segment]. If they didn't like it, we could have a little conference with the parents <s>. I didn't need to schedule any conferences. Someone isn't catching these kids.
newsday.com
....Research suggests cheating is rampant on campus. In a 1999 Rutgers University survey of 2,100 college students, about 33 percent said they had cheated on exams, and 50 percent said they had cheated on assignments....
The problem comes about when the parents know the kid is goofing off and don't give a d**n. And it's not that uncommon.
IMO, we exacerbate the problem. When the students do poorly, we blame everybody but the students. It's the school, the teachers, the parents, the lack of funds, etc, ad nauseum.
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