Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my teacher called a friend and me out of class and told us we had been reported for plagiarism because our answers to a problem were nearly identical, and he said that I shouldn't have shared my work. This for an assignment where significant marks were awarded for collaborating with peers. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I got yelled at for 10 minutes by my head of department for failing one of my students for plagiarism, because, "we can't be sure." It was my work he plagiarised, but because it's not in our system, it doesn't count. FML
Today, at school, I got in trouble for plagiarizing on a paper. The subject of said paper was where I see myself in ten years. 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 got my results on a recent, important midterm. During the exam, I'd noticed my instructor had accidentally left an answers page in the test packet, so being honest, I didn't look at them. It turns out she did it on purpose to help us pass. I failed. FML
Today, I took a final for my law class. As I was taking the test, I noticed the girl on my left copying off me. I wrote all the wrong answers on my sheet while writing the correct answers on my desk hoping she would copy the wrong answers down. I forgot to write the correct answers on my test. FML
Today, I got a paper back that was given a zero for suspected plagiarism. Everything I wrote was my own thought and analysis. My instructor basically thinks my paper is smarter than I am. He won't listen, even when I explain my thought processes throughout the piece. FML
Today, I tried to turn in a final exam online. When I went to check if it had been submitted, Blackboard told me it did. My grade told a different story. FML
Today, I got the best grade in class on my economics midterm. Rather than tell me I did a good job, my professor criticized me in front of everyone about how I was working "too hard". FML
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Crazynopantsman 11
Did you try to hit undo when you were called to the office?
shudson186 17
School system for you. They take plagiarism seriously.
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Comments (79)
i_h8t_everything 12
This is a perfect example of how corrupt modern day authority figures really are. Good luck with him/her OP.
AverageJoey 18
Your teacher must have some kind of bone to pick with you, watch your back OP.
brandoneyez1 25
Nobody said that the people teaching our youth were smart. In fact in the last several years studies show that the education system has failed to maintain a level of learning. When learning becomes just test after test.. I'll keep my kid home schooled.
RedPillSucks 33
Well, when you pay the teachers such low wages, what can you expect. Anyway, OP is from Maylasia, so we can't generalize too much
ohSNAPyall 27
Is that really the reason you'll be home-schooling?
Hunterx700 17
actually, that is a perfectly valid reason for home schooling. why put your kids through a system in which the majority of children hate, and the majority of children aren't even learning from, when you can teach them yourself and potentially portray learning as a fun activity?
Tankkiller308 16
Here is my opinion only use homeschooling as a last resort yes you can learn better and it is a better environment but I've seen to many homeschooled kids crash in the real world after it because no social skills were gained like you would get in a public or private school and many do not know how to function in society. Depending on how you teach homeschooling as great benefits but unless you can make them have social interaction to learn social right from wrong and appropriate behavior in public it can really hurt them. This is my opinion as a teenager with homeschooled friends so take it or leave it.
worldclassrager 41
Well this can be proven false...hope it all works out though
jimmy_poison 19
Are you sure you were cited for the assessment you were sitting? Often assignments are due pretty close to exams, so maybe your most recent paper is the issue
matthew5555555 11
I know your feeling man OP don't mess with those kind of teachers...
therealjc_fml 14
You're just that good!
hiholls 13
Definitely need more details for this one
depressingrage 5
How do you plagiarize a written exam. If you can do that you have a great memory and deserve an A.
askullnamedbilly 33
Nope. If you copy someone else's work without giving credit, it's plagiarism and you should be punished. It doesn't matter if you have a physical copy of the source material lying next to you or if you've managed to memorize the entire thing for some reason. It might take a lot effort, but so does a well orchestrated bank heist and that still is theft as well.
zach055 23
I know that the OP is Malaysian, but let me tell you how much the American school system is screwed up. In Math classes, if we write the correct answer without showing our work, we get the question marked incorrect even when the answer is correct. If we get the incorrect answer while showing our work, we get it marked correct. I once heard a teacher say, 'if you say that 2+2=5 it will be marked correct as long as you show your work. If you say 2+2=4 without showing your work it will be marked wrong.'
askullnamedbilly 33
And what exactly did your rant about the American school system have to do with the comments you replied to? OR the FML itself? It's about plagiarism, and OP does not live anywhere near America.
deathrowdiesel 2
Damn my bullshit-o-meter just went into orbit