Cash, not really. I mean sort of. But not really. In fact the AP was all, "Why didn't you report the other incidents of plagiarism?" Really? This school makes it clear that the preferred method of management is that teachers handle the things that relate to their classroom. Which is what I've done in the past. Then once he realized that the kid was already failing and that a zero on this assignment wouldn't make them fail more, then he backed down and was relieved. I think he was in CYA mode.
There is more to the story (as their always is). All of these kids have been admitted to college. One kid cheated on last term's final exam (he's the one in the running for valedictorian)
this is what they turned in as theirs
Cheerleading coach. For reals. Oh yeah. And I have to go to Prom this year to chaperone.
Sigh.
I've decided to donate my miata. I feel like I'm giving up my last vestige of youth. (Easy decision because the battery is going and when I opened the trunk, where the battery is to jump the car, it was filled with mold.... I haven't driven the car or even been in it since December and the seal on the trunk is obviously bad -- the rains have gotten it. Also easy because the car was broken into this fall and it just seems like a liability with no real payoff).