Tuesday, May 05, 2009

My final exams are all written and ready to go to the copy-shop.

With my chair's consent, I'm giving the plagiarist a 0 (even though I don't have the copied paper - I'd love to have it, though, so I could staple it onto the back and go "SEE?!?! SEE?!?!"*). I'm going to put "come see me if you disagree with this grade" on her grade sheet. And if she comes in, grill her on the lab techniques, WHERE she did the work (it was not done in OUR labs), etc., etc. I hate having to play bad cop but it's probably the only way if she doesn't just swallow the 0 and figure that she got caught. (Oh, and her presentation gets a 0 also)

(*I've done something similar when students copied off the 'Net -printed out a copy of the webpage they copied from, stapled it back to the paper. No, I don't get all vindictive about it but I do write, "Come see me if you don't understand why you got a 0")

I'm eating lunch now. I'm going to go see if I can get my allergy shot, then go home and practice piano (lesson is this afternoon). Then, this afternoon, I am going to go home and do something that has NOTHING to do with school. I don't know what yet but I am DONE. I am sick of worrying about this, feeling bad, dealing with the stress of grading and writing exams...

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