Today, I collected my students' final essays. One of them submitted a printout of a screenshot he took with his phone. Too bad a browser address bar was still in the shot, along with a "click to read more" link at the bottom. My students are too dumb and lazy to even plagiarize properly. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. FML
Today, a student turned in homework she copied off an online answer key. The wrong key. My students are too stupid to cheat right. FML
Today, I turned in my homework. Too bad I accidentally handed in the printed answer sheet I found online to copy from. FML
Today, I handed in an internship assignment that I have been working on for months. Once submitted, a pop-up showed, stating the assignment was 100% plagiarized. What was it plagiarized from? A student paper. My own, to be more specific - the exact same paper I had uploaded seconds before. FML
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
Today, my AP teacher once again accused me of plagiarism. Apparently the words "demise," "ultimately," and "rural," are too sophisticated for an 11th grade AP student to use and MUST have been copied from the Internet. FML
Today, I wrote the most beautiful college application essay ever, ten minutes before the online deadline. Instead of clicking "submit", I clicked the button next to it that said "return". The entire essay vanished into internet wasteland. FML
Today, after finishing a huge French essay, I realized my printer wasn't working. So, I emailed it to a guy in my class to print and then give to me. When I get to French, he said he had already turned his in early and never got my email. It turned out he used mine. I got an F on the essay. FML
Today, I met up with my group for class. We were doing some final checks on the project we've been working on all semester, when I realized something about one guy's work seemed off. I googled it and found out it's almost completely plagiarized. It's all due in the morning. FML
Today, I found out why my history grade is so low: the kid in front of me takes my homework, writes his name on it, and passes it off as his own. FML
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SemiAuto 21
I would've sent him a McDonald's application
Trin_Tran 26
Your students really do try their best .
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Queenie2014 11
Did he also steal your answer book and wrote student answers may vary on his homework questions?
Radayam 19
Okay, I'm not crazy. I KNOW I've read this exact FML before. Is this a reprint or something? Not that I'm complaining, as its still a great FML.
Radayam 19
EDIT: I just remembered that the FML I was thinking about actually was slightly different, where it was all or most of the class instead of one student, and the OP was saying that their students couldn't cheat properly, rather than plagiarize. My bad.
kelsorg 21
technology. making people dumber one day at a time.
Miss_Whipped 43
And you access FML from what, a stone tablet and a chisel?
kelsorg 21
its sarcasm if you can't tell.
Miss_Whipped 43
Nice try.
bv2332 10
He was just trying to cite his sources
pikawarriors 18
I don't think this is a real FML. I was going through the 'random' section awhile ago and found one almost exactly like this from 2009 or 2010 :/
w_pony_4ever 15
haha so you're saying that this FML about plagiarism has been plagiarized?? lol that's perf
william007w 5
I'm only a high school student but I read a lot of stuff online(just random things.) and a few times I've accidentally plagiarized things I've read. I thought they where my Own thoughts but they turned out to be the author. It's such a pain to read.
RedPillSucks 33
Not the same as it was no accident. Worse, especially if the essay was short enough to fit in a single screen shot. If one is too lazy to write a single page....
winchestinalock 21
What is wrong with my generation?!
RedPillSucks 33
Every generation. When I taught a college math class many years ago, two students cheated off each other and handed the paper in back to back. This gave me a huge sense of déjà vu when grading. I basically gave them the grade divided by two. If they were too dumb to hand in the papers more separated, they didn't deserve to pass.
lifesabish 9
Hope you're reading comments.... I have two young kids, and I completely disagree with how teachers are paid. You have to put up with crap like this and way worse all the time, but because of your fml name I will tell you- I hope you find students that make teaching feel worth it, and contact parents of kids like this. If the parents don't give a damn then the poor kids were doomed from the start.
r_u_happy 7
It's really sad how lazy kids have gotten these days.
Shade1982 21
You ALWAYS have that right, it's called freedom of speech :P. If we can use that right to insult religion and other crap like that, we can do this too. Besides, you can't teach intelligence, you either have it, or you don't.