"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." - attributed to Mark Twain.
97 students were caught blatantly cheating on a computer sciences project at the University of Florida. Apparently, the project files contained some sort of marker which delineated that paper as a paper that belonged to someone else.
In an email sent Friday, Bermudez gave suspected students their options: Students could accept responsibility, accept responsibility but challenge the penalty, deny responsibility or do nothing.
Students who accept responsibility will receive zeroes on the exam, suffer 5 percent grade deductions and will not be able to drop the class.
One lovely snowflake had the audacity to complain in print. I have edited out her name, as the FERPA police have ingrained things in me, but you will find the name in the actual article, where presumably she gave permission for them to print it.
JR, an 18-year-old finance and information systems freshman, said she plans to accept responsibility. But she will challenge the penalty, she said, because students cheated in years past.
“I’m really angry at the fact that students got away with this in earlier semesters,” she said. “We are taking the hit, and I believe that is unfair.”
So apparently, because someone cheated in the past, it's totally fine to cheat now.
PS- If anyone would like to educate me on how to create such wonderful pictures, I can continue the lovely tradition of posting abstract pictures with the post.
ReplyDeleteGet the GIMP, and use one of the odder filters.
Delete"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." - attributed to Mark Twain
ReplyDeleteWhat does that mean? I don't know... better say something quick or you'll look like an idiot! - Homer Simpson's brain
Sorry kiddie but your argument won't play. "My bad officer that I was speeding but you can't write me a ticket because people have gotten away with speeding in the past".
ReplyDeleteAnd they wonder why we're so fucking miserable????
ReplyDeleteThis is a marvelous bit of reasoning that could justify everything from not replacing the toilet paper roll to mass murder. Justifying bad behaviour by pointing to other bad behaviour is a desperate move. I find it amazing that it's always the wrongdoers who complain of unfairness. "It's wrong to penalize me for cheating because that is unfair, since cheaters in previous years' classes weren't penalized." As if there is nothing unfair about cheating! Classic pot-kettle scenario!
ReplyDeleteI believe the quote was:
ReplyDeleteFar better to keep one's peace and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
-- Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
My comeback to the student who did this of course would be:
WHO DID YOU SEE DO THIS?